After nearly 20 years, Canada appears poised to end one of its boldest experiments in gun control the required registration of long guns, or shotguns and hunting rifles.
Last November, a bill to abolish the Long Gun Registry, enacted in 1995 and gradually phased in through 2003, passed a second reading in the Canadian House of Commons by a tally of 164 to 137. It faces a third and final reading in that chamber later this year; prospects are good for passage in the Canadian Senate.
The registration program was extremely costly and ineffective. And since liberal politicians weren’t able to pass follow-up confiscation legislation, the registration program was pointless.
