Quebec towns denouncing provincial long-gun registry

A number of Quebec towns are denouncing a provincial long-gun registry and calling for it to be scrapped entirely.

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Gun-owners across the province were given a year to register their weapons and the deadline passed this week with 75 per cent of the long guns believed to be in the province not being registered.

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Philip Tetrault, mayor of one of the communities pushing back, says the registry might be popular in Montreal and Quebec City, but the majority of people in his town are against it.

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Louise Quintin, spokeswoman for Quebec’s Public Security Department, says a little more that 386-thousand guns have been registered out of an estimated 1.6 million in the province.

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One small town opponent says the gun law, adopted by the previous Liberal government, is being maintained by the new Coalition Avenir Qurbec (CAQ) government because politicians cater to urban voters.

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