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Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
What kind of gun control does Canada have in place? You say that they are perfectly legal, yet people just don't own them? I wouldn't be suprised at all if more people have one tucked away than you think.
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Recently we started forcing people to register their fire arms. They had one year to do so, and in the first 6months of this program to reg up for free. Afterwards they had to pay $50 to register their guns. The program has been more costly then first expected but people are registering their guns.
No, in general Canadians dont own guns like Americans do. In the USA there are more guns present then people, I know for a fact its not like that up here. I'd probably say its because we are more closely related to Britian where its hard to own a gun in a city center, but if you're in the country side, owning/registering a gun is alot easier. We also have relatively good police, and crime is lower then in the US, though its starting to rise.
I see no problem in people owning guns, I just think that they are to easy to come by. When little kids start popping bullets in schools there is something seriously wrong with the gun set up.
In Toronto, with a population of 2.4 million people its really hard for someone like myself (I live 5min from downtown) to own a gun and keep it stored at my house. If I lived a few hours North of the city it woudl be easier. There is a longer waiting period, and stricter storage rules and if I was to transport the gun, the police would like to know just incase something goes wrong. It would be illegal for me to leave a gun (loaded or not) in my car, and I could serve serious jail time for it.