The Quebec government wants to make it easier for gun owners to register their long guns since so far less than half of the firearms in the province have been registered.
The province heard on Tuesday why making concessions may not be enough to break the boycott against the firearms registry.
“It’s no secret there is an unwillingness among hunters to register their firearms,” Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said during public hearings while addressing Quebec’s hunters and anglers federation, the Fédération québécoise des chasseurs et pêcheurs.
The numbers tell the story: only 700,000 out of 1.6 million firearms have been registered since the deadline passed last January.
The National Assembly is studying this week Bill 25, which aims to make registration simpler, in hopes more people will comply with the registry.
The Quebec hunters and anglers federation said it already encourages its members to comply, but said many of them think the registry is bureaucratic and a waste of money. There is also currently a backlog: 150,000 people are still waiting for their applications to be processed.
“The registry is not working now so that’s why we want the government to get rid of it,” said Alain Cossette, the federation’s director general.
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The gun registry. Hey, this is my home turf, the gun registry is a joke. The government will put the miminum into it. Its another facade to coo the snowflakes and coddle the secular religon of ecole polytechnique.
I believe the word in english is bullshit. In french, la bullshit.