Calgary:Feds lost track of 90,000 guns

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Feds lost track of 90,000 gunsBy MELISSA RIDGEN, CALGARY SUN More than 65,000 foreigners declared 89,820 firearms as they entered Canada last year, but the federal government has no idea how many are still in the country, says the Canadian Alliance gun control critic. Yorkton-Melville Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz said that's what he has learned through Access to Information requests from the RCMP and Canada Customs, which revealed almost 90,000 guns were declared but never registered or tracked by the RCMP. DEFEATS PURPOSE "The firearms are recorded when they arrive at the border but the government immediately loses track of them defeating the purpose of the registry," Breitkreuz said yesterday. "It's time to put this burgeoning billion-dollar boondoggle out of its misery and redirect the money to real law enforcement priorities," he said of ending the firearms registry. Wendy Cukie, President of the Coalition for Gun Control, said doing away with the legislation isn't the answer and the registry will work, given time. "You can't have it both ways. The Opposition says (gun control) is a waste of time and money and at the same time complain it's not being properly implemented. If it's not useful why do they care?" she said http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-01-09-0020.html