Absolutely.
I think the very first point you raised is the answer to your question, which is that we already have a wonderful database in this country of law-abiding citizens. It is the firearms licensing system. Those individuals are pre-approved through rigorous background checks. In fact, if I were to compare the screening I underwent to obtain a secret security clearance for the Government of Canada with the screening that a law-abiding firearm owner goes through to obtain a possession and acquisition licence, without a doubt the licence screening is far more rigorous. We have a list of individuals who have been pre-cleared as law-abiding citizens, who are legitimate gun users. They are not the ones who are trafficking in firearms; they are not the ones who are smuggling firearms.
When we talk about the abolition of the registry and perhaps allowing firearms owners to transfer their firearms without a record, these are individuals who have already been pre-qualified by the Government of Canada as law-abiding citizens. They are not the ones who have anything to do with the proliferation of illegal firearms into this country.
The answer, of course, as you alluded to, is drug dealers—individuals with lengthy criminal records that would make them ineligible for a firearms licence, and in many cases, individuals with outright firearms prohibitions imposed by our courts, meaning that under no circumstances could they lawfully possess a firearm, transfer one legitimately, or obtain a licence. That has absolutely nothing to do with the registry. The registry targets one group, and one group alone, and that's law-abiding firearms owners.