For American gun owners curious about what's been going on lately north of the border here's some good news. The newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper, has announced plans to scrap Canada's long gun registry. It seems that folks are beginning to realize that criminals don't register their firearms and that there has been no evidence to indicate that the registry has done anything to lessen gun violence in Canada. Ten years ago, the Canadian public was told that the registry would only cost 2 million dollars. As the cost began to skyrocket the then government in power promised to scrap the registry if the cost were to reach 150 million. Well less than ten years later the cost was now over 1 billion dollars and it was still rising. Some analysts claim that the true current figure is now near 2 billion dollars but no one seems to know for sure. So now the new government wants to scrap the rifle registry and increase penalties for criminals who use guns. They promise that in the future, the money that would have gone into maintaining the registry will now be spent on crime control. Go figure ...