

The records have hardly become more accurate in the three years since the registry was shut down. The data it contained was made even more unreliable by a series of amnesties the federal Conservatives declared in the minority government era, making compliance effectively voluntary. The long-gun registry was riddled with inaccurate and out of date information from the start. That has always meant, not hauling the old federal registry data out of mothballs, but starting from scratch and collecting it all over again. If that’s the case, it should surely wish to create the most accurate registry possible. Quebec insists the long-gun registry is a matter of public safety (as opposed, say, to empty symbolism or political theatre, as it has always seemed to us). This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
