GoonBag
05-04-2006, 05:55 PM
* * * * OTTAWA -- The Tories campiagned on law and order and the Conservative Party was not just talking tough.
A Global National exclusive has discoverd the Harper government is appealing to it's base by moving to disarm the controversial gun registry.
Global National has learned the details of how the Conservatives are going to deal with the gun registry during the election they promised to kill it, but that's proving to be more difficult than they thought.
It was a promise that always played well with conservative audiences.
Since they took power the Conservatives have been trying to figure out how to kill the long gun registry and they're now promising they're going to act.
Global National has learned what they are planning to do.
Sources say the federal government will announce a one year amnesty for gun owners who fail to register a firearm, or if they let their license expire.
The government will waive the payment of any fees and it will refund the fees paid by gun owners in recent months.
Until the registry is eliminated, responsibility for it will move from the public safety minister, to the RCMP.
The head of the national firearms association says he will welcome this action,but it doesn't go far enough.
The Tories do want to get rid of the gun registry,.but that will require legislation they are planning to introduce a bill, but there's no guarantee it will pass in a minority parliament.
The auditor general may give them some important ammunition.
Sheila Fraser will be issuing a report in 12 days time and Global National has also learned it will be critical of the way the firearms centre has handed out and administered contracts in the past.
It was the death of 14 women in Montreal that sparked an outcry for tougher gun controls, and the gun registry was created in 1995.
Those that fought hard for the registry say it should not be abandoned.
But the Conservatives are listening to Canada's gun owners, who have been screaming for years they are law abiding citizens who should not be forced to register their firearms.
Adding to the gun registry's public relations -- huge cost overruns and originally promised to cost taxpayers 2 million dollars the bill is now more than a billion..
Although supporters of the registry point out that now it's running more efficiently, costing about 16 million dollars a year.
A Global National exclusive has discoverd the Harper government is appealing to it's base by moving to disarm the controversial gun registry.
Global National has learned the details of how the Conservatives are going to deal with the gun registry during the election they promised to kill it, but that's proving to be more difficult than they thought.
It was a promise that always played well with conservative audiences.
Since they took power the Conservatives have been trying to figure out how to kill the long gun registry and they're now promising they're going to act.
Global National has learned what they are planning to do.
Sources say the federal government will announce a one year amnesty for gun owners who fail to register a firearm, or if they let their license expire.
The government will waive the payment of any fees and it will refund the fees paid by gun owners in recent months.
Until the registry is eliminated, responsibility for it will move from the public safety minister, to the RCMP.
The head of the national firearms association says he will welcome this action,but it doesn't go far enough.
The Tories do want to get rid of the gun registry,.but that will require legislation they are planning to introduce a bill, but there's no guarantee it will pass in a minority parliament.
The auditor general may give them some important ammunition.
Sheila Fraser will be issuing a report in 12 days time and Global National has also learned it will be critical of the way the firearms centre has handed out and administered contracts in the past.
It was the death of 14 women in Montreal that sparked an outcry for tougher gun controls, and the gun registry was created in 1995.
Those that fought hard for the registry say it should not be abandoned.
But the Conservatives are listening to Canada's gun owners, who have been screaming for years they are law abiding citizens who should not be forced to register their firearms.
Adding to the gun registry's public relations -- huge cost overruns and originally promised to cost taxpayers 2 million dollars the bill is now more than a billion..
Although supporters of the registry point out that now it's running more efficiently, costing about 16 million dollars a year.