A year ago, when this was being hotly debated due to Hoepner's private members bill, part of the debate was focused on the irrational fear of gun owners that registration precedes confiscation.

Surely that is not happening here. These poor gun owning saps didn't actually *register* their guns did they?

When the current gun registry goes away, can we be certain the information is deleted for all time? It better not be available for another government to pick up, dust off and carry on the ludicrous rationale of past Liberal/NDP philosophy.

Will law abiding gun owners be forced to turn in guns they obtained legally, faithfully registered, and accepted government promises, registration was *not* a prelude to confiscation after all?

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/Part+Tighten+controls+civilianized+military+assault+weapons/5594876/story.html#ixzz1biU1l6T9