research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence,'' " There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.'' [emphasis added] "The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available." -- Solicitor General Herb Gray Answering on behalf of the Liberal Government the written question "Since 1934, how many crimes, in total, have been solved using the RCMP's Restricted Weapon Registration System?" Said to about 150 mayors, councilors and reeves at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference as part of a response to a question from a small-town Alberta politician who suggested the hundreds of millions of dollars the government has spent on the gun registry would be better used to give the RCMP more resources. "The gun law system has created a (black) market out there simply because there are so many gun rules in this country," he says.  "The profit margin is tremendous . . . You can have all the laws in the world and all the enforcement people behind every bush," he says.  "You will never stop these people." Program cost estimates have risen from $119 million to over $1 billion 10.27 In November 1994, prior to the introduction