That is possibly true also. However, we don't feel that the restricted firearms should also be deregistered. We feel it's appropriate that every effort is maintained to verify the accuracy and to see if there are some questions there about reliability.
Other costs that are never taken into account would be the possible cost of trying to maintain follow-up on somebody who has, for instance.... As we know, because of the unreliability of data, you could be subject to a variety of legal sanctions if the data registered in the firearm licence centre wasn't correct. So it's very difficult to estimate the costs that this has and could continue to run. To maintain a program that is simply not efficient, and we're talking about the cataloguing of the unregistered long guns, when we should be directing our resources certainly into hand guns, where we see an increasing problem with gang-related activity.... Any savings that we can achieve by deflecting savings on the long gun registry to crime prevention using a variety of methods are worth doing.
Also, keep in mind that all of the other provisions still remain. The hand gun registry is still in place, restrictive firearms still in place, and the requirement to have a licence if you're going to possess a firearm is still on the registry. As I indicated in my opening remarks, a police officer approaching a house and wondering, in fact, if there is the possibility of firearms present would still have that indication, because that would be on a person's file.
And also keep in mind, as I close it out on your good question there, Joe, the harsh reality is that people of criminal intent rarely, if ever, register their firearms.