Only an estimated 450 persons die annually from guns, in a population of 30-million. This includes police shootings of criminals. Knives kill far more people in Canada than guns do. By January 2001, there be will licence fees and registration fees. There is also a 28-day waiting period to enable police enquiries.
Additional thrills await the new applicant.
He must take a safety course and pass an exam in the use of firearms and knowledge of the law. All kinds of irrelevant and even stupid questions on the exam can be used to flunk applicants at the whim of the bureaucrats. For example, you may be asked about the muzzle velocity of a magnum handgun, when all you want to do is buy a shotgun to go duck hunting. In one recent case, the president of a gun club failed this stupid exam. This means that the aboriginals will have special privileges to which most Canadians are not entitled.