Any doubt about the government's intention to completely disarm Canadians can be dispelled by the latest regulations to implement Bill C-68, as outlined in the Guide to Proposed Firearms Regulations, published by the Justice Department in November, 1996. Both groups are irrelevant in view of the extremely low number of deaths from firearms. Obviously Rock and company are out to get the gunowners, regardless of the fact that you are seven times more likely to die in a car accident than from gunshot wounds. 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.