- Control the cost of the gun registry by capping the annual cost at $25 million per year
- Reduce compliance requirements for firearms owners and other irritants identified by firearms owners and related businesses
- Implement tougher sentencing for gun crimes and trafficking
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- Scrap the gun registry and divert the savings to hire 200 more Mounties and pay for a sex-offender registry
- The Conservative Party would like to see mandatory minimum penalties for criminal use of firearms and their illegal possession
- Strict monitoring of high-risk individuals
- A crackdown on gun smuggling
- Safe storage laws
- Firearms safety training
- A licensing system for anyone who wants to use firearms legally
- A registry of convicted criminals who have been prohibited by the courts from owning a firearm
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- The NDP supports gun control but has serious concerns about the cost of the gun registry
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- The Bloc favors maintaining the gun registry program but also wants public inquiry into the costs overruns
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- Call a public inquiry into the ballooning costs of the federal gun registry
- Maintain the ban on fully automatic and paramilitary weapons
- Keep the registration of hand-guns and pistols
- Before getting a gun, the owner must have a firearm acquisition certificate
- Enforce a 28-day waiting period for a firearms acquisition certificate
- Require firearms owner to be licensed and trained to use a gun
- Prohibit youths under 16 and anyone with a criminal record from owning a gun
- Legislate mandatory jail time for anyone who commits a crime with a gun
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