With the imposition of Bill C 68 in 1995, for no discernible reason except urban angst and anti masculine paranoia, the government tied the ownership and acquisition of all firearms to a bureaucratic rigmarole. It's a procedure as intrusive, humiliating, and astronomically expensive as it's useless that is, useless for any purpose other than reminding citizens that in Canada the state can do anything.
Read Original at: The National Post (Canada)