Proposed new government regulations would end the requirement that long gun sellers record sales data that could be used by police to track firearm ownership.
The regulations were tabled in Parliament and sent to the Senate committee on legal and constitutional affairs for study June 14. It is expected to approve them this week.
As he tabled the regulations , public safety minister Vic Toews said it was important to stop the unnecessary collection of data of sales of unrestricted guns.
Quebec has filed a court case demanding information on Quebec gun ownership so it can create its own gun registry to replace the federal version in the province.
Toews insists federal data in the gun registry bank collected for 17 years will not be made available to provinces, and data on sales of unregistered rifles should not be kept.
