Of course I am aware that there are groups against this.
Respectfully, we are talking about completely shutting down the handgun industry. You said that we weren't looking to do that, but we are. We're completely restricting the sale of handguns to all vetted owners.
I'd also like to say that we have a situation in which these items are severely restricted, and all of these owners are vetted by the RCMP. Is there any situation in which you have 100% safety with any item? No. That's not the case. It's our job to do the best we can to limit the number of these items getting into criminal hands, and I think the industry has done a very good job of that.
Now we're using an extreme amount of resources to try to limit the less than 10% of firearms that are acquired legally and we are not using our resources to attack the 90% that are not acquired legally. In the meantime, we're shutting down an industry that represents $8.5 billion to our economy and many jobs, and we can't minimize that. That's a great deal of cost to our overall economy and to these people in this industry who have participated in it legally for their whole lives.