With regard to the e-mail sent to all Members of Parliament on December 6, 2004, by the Honourable Roy Cullen, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, in which he stated: “Moreover, about 6,000 firearms have been traced in gun-crime and firearm-trafficking cases within Canada and internationally.”: ( a ) how many of the 6,000 firearms traced were actually found in the old Restricted Weapon Registration System; ( b ) how many of the 6,000 firearms traced were found in the new Canadian Firearms Registry; ( c ) how many of the 6,000 traces led police investigators to the registered owner of the firearm; ( d ) how many of the registered owners identified were charged with the original crime in which their registered firearm was involved; and ( e ) how many of the registered owners identified were charged with providing their registered firearm to the criminal or criminals involved in the original crime being investigated?
In the House of Commons on April 4th, 2005. See this statement in context.