The Promises: 

                      Alan Rock: ‘Should the decision be to proceed with a system 
                      of registration, it will only be on the basis that such a 
                      system can be established through a reasonable outlay of 
                      capital costs.’  — Nov. 14. 1994 

                      Alan Rock: ‘We have provided our estimate of the cost of 
                      implementing universal registration over the next five 
                      years. We say that it will cost $85 million. .... We 
                      encourage the members opposite to examine our estimates. We 
                      are confident we will demonstrate the figures are realistic 
                      and accurate.” — Feb. 16, 1995 

                      The Reality: 

                      “I got crucified on gun registration,” Mr. Hec Clouthier, 
                      former Liberal MP. Mr. Clouthier was defeated in the last 
                      election on the firearm legislation.

                      “Any support that we had has been significantly weakened,” 
                      Bruce Miller, Police Association of Ontario. 04 December 
                      2002.

                      “A billion dollars spent on health care would have saved 
                      countless lives. Instead we spent $1 billion on Allan Rock’s 
                      personal vendetta against firearms and got less than 
                      nothing. Thanks, Allan.”  Doug MacKay, Canadian Taxpayer. 04 
                      December 2002.

                      “We said from the beginning this program was regrettably 
                      dead on arrival and wouldn’t work,” Manitoba Premier Gary 
                      Doer. 04 December 2002.

                      “There were some mistakes, sure. We expected that the 
                      provinces were going to help us, and in some places they did 
                      not; they made it very difficult for us,” Prime Minister 
                      Jean Chretien. 04 December 2002.

                      “Expenditures of that size mean that money poured into the 
                      gun registry cannot be spent on resources for, say, the RCMP 
                      or other federal security agencies. Municipal police 
                      services, too, must spend money on registering guns, rather 
                      than fighting crime.” Leader Post, Regina Saskatchewan. 
                      Editorial 05 December 2002.

                      “It would appear that the federal gun control scheme’s days 
                      are numbered. The program is fifty times more expensive than 
                      the government first suggested. Furthermore, the value of 
                      the information in the expensive gun registry is of dubious 
                      value, according to the RCMP itself.” Moncton Times and 
                      Transcript. Editorial 05 December 2002.

                      “Straight shooters they’re not. But then, they never aimed 
                      to be. For seven years, bureaucrats in Canada’s justice 
                      ministry under Allan Rock, Anne McLellan and now Martin 
                      Cauchon have lowballed, denied, hidden and shrugged off the 
                      ever-rising cost of setting up a national firearms 
                      registry.” Toronto Star Editorial 05 December 2002.

                      “But what we needed was a low-cost, effective program, not a 
                      billion-dollar bureaucratic boondoggle that threatens to 
                      make the cost overruns at the Caisse de Depot headquarters 
                      in Montreal look like a bargain. And there’s not even much 
                      evidence the program is effective. The Justice Department 
                      boasts that it has refused licenses to 30,000 ‘’dangerous 
                      individuals,’’ which sounds great until you read the RCMP’s 
                      report on the database used to make such judgments.” 
                      Montreal Gazette 05 December 2003.

                      Tonight Liberal Members of Parliament will be asked to vote 
                      for another $72 million dollars for this program.  The 
                      request is disguised — $9.1 million for “grants” $62.1 
                      million for “operating expenditures” – with no indication 
                      that the money is to be spent on the gun registry.  Liberal 
                      MPs have a graceful way to save face and perhaps their 
                      political careers – next election.

                      They can Vote NO!  

                      If you would prefer to see effective firearm control in 
                      Canada that does not attack law-abiding firearm owners, then  
                      you must TODAY -- Contact your Member of Parliament and tell 
                      them.

                      The five minutes you spend today might help save billions of 
                      dollars, and countless lives of Canadians.

                      Sincerely,


                      James M. Hinter
                      National President
                      National Firearms Association

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