As I understand it from this distance, Dean's right about data---in effect, registration---and all data is accessible to federal authorities, in effect a national database. Right?
While the US gun scene appears less restrictive than Canada's ---cc everywhere, footloose and fancy free--Canada's is significantly less onerous with sporting long-gun transactions.
Handguns are strictly regulated but in day-to-day buying and selling it's private business as long as each has passed a safety course and has possession and acquisition license.
Government doesn't know which guns I have, bought or sold. An earlier government introduced a registry but it was overturned with popular assent.
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