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   Globalnews.ca - March 27, 2014   
      
      
   How will the RCMP enforce new long-gun ban with no long-gun registry?   
      
   Late last month, the RCMP made changes to a national gun database   
   prohibiting two kinds of semi-automatic rifles. Gun owners are up in   
   arms; so is the Public Safety Minister, although he’s powerless to   
   reverse the ban (for now).   
      
   What isn’t clear is how police will enforce that rule if they no longer   
   know who in Canada owns those guns.   
      
   According to a redacted copy of the national firearms database made   
   before long-gun data was deleted, obtained by Global News under   
   access-to-information laws, this ban appears to affect about 8,000   
   rifles – just over 60 per cent of them in B.C. and Alberta.   
      
   Compensating all affected owners would cost about $8.8 million.   
      
   But that data reflects the long-gun registry data as it was in mid-2012.   
   Assuming the ban sticks, how would police remove all 8,000 rifles from   
   circulation within two years?   
      
   The reclassification is the first time since the deletion of the long   
   gun registry that a non-restricted firearm has been prohibited.   
   Previously, the RCMP would have used the registry to trace affected   
   firearms and compensate affected owners.   
      
   How will it work now?   
      
   “[The RCMP] would inform provincial Chief Firearms Officers, post a   
   notice to its website, inform callers when they call the CFP toll-free   
   information line and issue special bulletins to firearms businesses and   
   police,” says RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Julie Gagnon.   
      
   That leaves out any plan to actually enforce the rule, however – an   
   inability critics of the long-gun registry’s abolishment predicted at   
   the time.   
      
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