Tories will have ‘blood on their hands,’ if long-gun registry is eliminated, says survivor of 1989 Montreal massacre

Heidi Rathjen told The Hill Times that the loss of a registry of seven million rifles and shotguns is being made worse by a clause in Bill C-19 that removes current mandatory requirements for gun buyers and sellers to report firearms acquisitions and sales or even transfers from one individual to another.

PARLIAMENT HILL—The government’s determination to ram a bill dismantling the federal long-gun registry through Parliament while destroying all of its records and paving the way for unrecorded sales of rifles and shotguns rocked the gun-control movement Tuesday, with a shooting victim...

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