Mr. Speaker, last month a plain clothes policeman appeared at the home of Darrell McKnight near Fredericton with a warrant to seize his Franchi shotgun, banned by order in council effective January 1.
Mr. McKnight's teenaged daughter, home alone, phoned her father and on his instruction surrendered the gun's receiver, the minimum legal requirement. The officer insisted that she produce the rest of the gun and told her that he could tear the house to pieces to find the parts.
Given that when Mr. McKnight arrived with his lawyer, two backup police cars had arrived to deal with this dangerous criminal, can the justice minister understand why gun owners are afraid of setting themselves up for future harassment by registering their guns?