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Originally Posted by Manic!
Those were initial costs. If costs around 4 million to run per year. Harper talks about cost savings buy canceling it but at the ave time wants to reduce the fee's associated in getting a gun.
A 100 mill is drop in the bucket compared to what the G8 summit cost.
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I see what you're doing, you're splitting hairs. The majority of guns in Canada are long guns. This is the most recent stat I can find, yet I am going to assume i has not dramatically changed:
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1974 – 11,186,000 FIREARMS IN CANADA – STATISTICS CANADA
TABLE 1 – FIREARMS STOCK
Table 1(a) Proportional Breakdown of Estimated Total Firearms Stock, 1974
Comment: there are approximately 11 million firearms in Canada. This total is broken down as follows:
Handguns - 717,000 (6%)
Rifles - 6,652,000 (60%)
Shotguns - 3,817,000 (34%)
Total - 11,186,000
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The program costs $65M to run, yet I round up to $100M cause not all costs are eaten directly by the agency running it.
As others said, if it cost a couple $M to run I'd be all for it - yet instead its bloated - and I do not trust any government to run it better for less - so get rid of it before the NDP waste money researching how to improve it.