I want to take you back to the first part of your dissertation. You talked about the traffic in firearms and firearms being smuggled. The firearms that are being smuggled into Canada from the United States are not long guns, rifles, and shotguns, but handguns.
The gangster on the street doesn't want a big, unwieldy firearm. He wants something small, something he can hide, and it becomes a status symbol to him to have that in his possession.
Those firearms, sir, are restricted and have been restricted since 1934. We still see a huge proliferation of them on our streets. We still do drug raids and find unregistered handguns and firearms that have been smuggled into this country from the United States. We're not finding rifles and shotguns smuggled in. Those are not what the gang underworld uses.
If I run into firearms, by far handguns or prohibited weapons are what I encounter most—things that have been sawed-off and chopped up, and some very crudely done.
So do I think the registry is going to stop any of that stuff? No. Do I think the registry of long guns will stop any of that? Absolutely not.