C-68 was a shotgun bill inspired by a shotgun crime

Reasonable critics then and since questioned the sense of criminalizing ownership of non-registered shotguns from Cape Breton to Dawson City because of Toronto Star hysteria and a murder on Davenport Road. Fourteen years later the question lingers.

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