The Canuck government (not for long) just passed law that strips the RCMP of the authority to reclassify restricted (special permit; transport only along a specified route to and from a certified range; others) firearms as prohibited - turn em in NOW! This is now under cabinet authority. Really? I dare say Cabinet, indeed most of our politicians, don't own or know much about guns... don't need em... the bastards steal legally.

It's a sad day when Canada, who had, with a few exceptions, good and progressive gun control laws, takes a step backward. The figure of 6M guns was bandied about some years ago but I always 'felt' it was far more.

I should add that the cost of our Gun Registry, as of 2004, was over $2B. A few years ago, our government (see above) abolished the registry and ordered all records destroyed. This was done except in Quebec. There is a huge flap going on now about the destruction but I'll spare you the details except to say that somebody broke the law and the government wants to retroactively legislate that they cannot be held accountable... I await the outcome with bated breath.

If memory serves me correctly, I think there have been gun threads on Mudcat before. I recall that I posted something like, "See you in another thousand posts" in several of them. >;-)