Firearms business owners, Conservatives call gun bill ‘backdoor gun registry,’ threaten to defeat rural Liberal MPs in 2019, Grits fire back, say it’s not a registry

Liberal MP Bryan May says he knows opposition parties will target his riding in 2019, but is not worried and looking forward to the challenge.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says anybody who calls the new gun legislation a gun registry is 'either honestly misinformed or deliberately not telling the truth.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 2, 2018

The federal Liberals are fighting back against accusations that recently tabled public safety legislation will lead to the creation of a new gun registry, as firearm businesses and the Conservatives promise to make the bill front and centre in campaigns against Grit MPs in swing rural ridings come 2...

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