Canada: Long-gun registry still pesters rural voters

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Long-gun registry still pesters rural voters
By Bill Graveland, THE CANADIAN PRESS
2008-09-21

HIGH RIVER, Alta - The sticker on the rear window of the blue Ford half-ton pickup sums up the views of its owner: "If They Take My Gun It Will Be HOT & EMPTY."

Don Wayne, 49, is a proud gun owner, a proud Conservative and a proud antagonist of the law that says he must register his impressive collection of rifles and shotguns.

"The only ones that are for it are people who don't have guns and don't like guns," Wayne says as he handles a 12-gauge pump shotgun. "It has nothing to do with the gun owner and it has nothing to do with crime."

Public debate over the federal long-gun registry may have faded in recent years, but out West - and especially in rural areas like High River south of Calgary - it's still a hot topic of discussion during the election campaign.

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