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  • At committee, Toews called the long-gun registry a "failed boondoggle."

    Thestar.com - Home Page Jim Bronskill 2011

  • The billboard originally planned pictures of an outline of the Ruger Mini 14 Tactical Rifle, a restricted firearm in Canada that will still have to be registered when the so-called long-gun registry is scrapped - not the Ruger Mini 14 Ranch Rifle used by Marc Lépine in the Polytechnique massacre.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Campbell Clark 2011

  • For now, long-gun ammo is "safe" ... although you can believe someone on the anti-gun side will be sniffing around that one soon enough.

    On Ammo and The Governator 2009

  • For now, long-gun ammo is "safe" ... although you can believe someone on the anti-gun side will be sniffing around that one soon enough.

    On Ammo and The Governator 2009

  • And Liberal MP Anita Neville said: “I find it difficult to stand beside a minister who chooses not to advocate for women, who chooses to follow the party line, who chooses to endorse the elimination of the long-gun registry.”

    ProWomanProLife » Taking a weird stand 2009

  • Yet of 2,441 homicides recorded in Canada since mandatory long-gun registration was introduced in 2003, fewer than 2 percent (47) were committed with rifles and shotguns known to have been registered.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • The new "long-gun" regulation is a rare foray into gun control by the Obama administration, which has shied away from such issues.

    New Rules on Border Gun Sales Evan Perez 2011

  • With rates of 10 percent for handgun sales and 11 percent for long-gun and ammunition sales, the tax generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year in dedicated revenue to the federal Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund.

    D.C. area congressional votes 2010

  • With rates of 10 percent for handgun sales and 11 percent for long-gun and ammunition sales, the tax generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year in dedicated revenue to the federal Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund.

    D.C. area congressional votes 2010

  • Abolishing the long-gun registry, better late than never.

    Islam's angry women Suzanne 2010

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