Who gives a fuck about long guns?
Canadians hunt with them.
No one cares a bout a regular hunting rifle.
Except morons who can't shoot, needing an AR or AK with 500 rounds to just to wound a rabbit.
Canada classified them as non-restricted.
Canada had a gun registry during the
Second World War, when all people were compelled to register their firearms out of fear of enemy subversion. This registry in Canada was discontinued after the war; however, all handguns (restricted) have been subject to registration since 1934.
In addition, fully automatic firearms have been prohibited (with
grandfathering exemptions to existing, licensed collectors of full-automatic weapons and theatrical users) since 1977. A Firearms Acquisition Certificate (FAC) was required to purchase any firearm since its implementation in 1977, although additional restrictions applied for handguns (restricted - 1934) and fully automatic firearms (prohibited −1977).
"registration had no use in solving crimes"…
ONE person's opinion in ONE province.
Former
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner
Julian Fantino opposed the gun registry, stating in a press release in 2003:
"We have an ongoing gun crisis including firearms-related homicides lately in Toronto, and a law registering firearms has neither deterred these crimes nor helped us solve any of them. None of the guns we know to have been used were registered, although we believe that more than half of them were smuggled into Canada from the United States. The firearms registry is long on philosophy and short on practical results considering the money could be more effectively used for security against terrorism as well as a host of other public safety initiatives."