""The stock of restricted weapons (almost all handguns) increased from an estimated 651,000 in 1976 to 923,000 in 1988 (based on the total number of restricted weapons registered with and reported by the RCMP.""

Another site stated (I'll show how to Google it in a moment--it's PDF and I can't link to that) that violent crime rates are about three times higher in the US than in Canada (in general). Google

Crime Statistics in Canada, 2005

It is a 24 page document. Look at Figure 6. Then drop to Table 1 on page 15.

Now, what was the question? -:)