If Tories listened to their own rhetoric, shooting gun registry would have been a first-term priority

What's remarkable is that keeping gun control alive is better for the Tories than keeping the promise to kill it.

BY James Travers

March 30, 2009

OTTAWA—Nothing is ever quite as it appears in federal politics. Take, for example, the cosy relationship between guns and Conservatives.

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