A gun group says the latest amendments to Canada’s firearms regulations just buy time for a government mired in its own complicated gun registration process.
“They are buried in its own red tape and have to keep buying time to try to make it work,” said Greg Illerbrun, chair of the Recreational Firearms Community.
The amendments, announced in June, include a waiver of the firearms transfer fee until Dec. 31, 2002, and an extension of the amnesty for prohibited handguns and unregistered restricted firearms to Dec. 31, 2001.
Illerbrun said the government issued as many as 800,000 temporary licences after the original December 2000 deadline for licensing guns was not met. The temporary licences expired in June, he said, and many who applied have yet to receive a licence.
Two million gun owners have already applied for licences, with more than 3,000 refused or revoked.
