moved for leave to introduce Bill C-314, an act to amend the Firearms Act and the Criminal Code (no registration of firearms that are not restricted or prohibited firearms).
Mr. Speaker, the firearms registration legislation, when it was passed, had two parts. One was the registration of long guns, the other was new measures to deal with the criminal misuse of firearms.
My bill would simply deal with the first part, the registration of long guns. Few people see any advantage to this. It is incredibly costly. It is causing all kinds of bureaucratic problems. The money which the system costs could be more effectively spent on such things as better policing, better equipment for the police, DNA data banks and many other things.
It is a phenomenal waste of money. Let us spend taxpayers' money wisely. We cannot prevent crime by hassling law-abiding citizens.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)