Your article on the elimination of the gun registry was short on facts. People need to understand why this wasteful system is being eliminated. Throughout the debate we heard a lot of lies about the American NRA lobbying for registry elimination. We heard proponents euphemistically state the registry was a "useful tool" without being able to point to one life it had saved. There's more evidence to suggest the registry contributed to the deaths of at least one young police officer in Montreal. She trusted it, knocked on a door thinking there were no guns present and was shot dead. The motives of the of Chiefs of Police were also in question. Their organization lobbied against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They are in favour of Bill C30 that will allow warrantless searches of citizens internet communications, and for all their crying the chiefs couldn't come out with any realistic numbers to support their pro-registry position. Studies of rank and file officers showed they were at odds with the brass, preferring not to rely on the registry. It's not just the gun registry that is the problem. The Canadian Firearms Act allows for warrantless police searches of the homes of innocent gun owners. The mere hint of a possiblility that a gun is present can send police crashing through your front door. Last week a Jesse Sansone of Kitchener was arrested at a public school because his 4 year old daughter crayoned a picture of him with a gun. "He uses it to scare away monsters" she said. The police, school and child welfare screwballs went berzerk. His home was searched without a warrant. A similar case happened in Winnipeg last month when someone phoned in a false complaint about a man with a shotgun. Andrew Lyons was arrested and his elderly parents kicked out of their house while machine-gun equipped police SWAT teams ransacked it looking for a supposed gun. There wasn't one. That's our Firearm Act at work again, and why MP Larry Miller compared the legislation to something out of 1930s Germany. There are a lot of arguments for gun laws in Canada but the science is on the side of the gun owners. Expensive registries, bureaucratic licensing, unwarranted searches of private homes - regardless have had no effect on crime in Canada according to an ever wider pool of accredited, published studies by acclaimed criminologists. Nobody has a magic wand, but good law enforcement and putting violent criminals in jail an leaving them there has more proven statistical weight at reducing crime than anti-gun laws do. After all, criminals don't care about laws. Gun owners will continue to work to have the Firearms Act revised so that is is more efficient and better reflects this free and democratic society we live in. Eliminating the registry is just one small step in that direction, and we thank the Conservatives for their understanding.