February 28, 2000
The Editor
The Ottawa Citizen
1 Page sent via fax to: (613) 596-8458

Dear Sir:

Re: SUCESSS DUE TO BETTER BACKGROUND CHECKS - NOT GUN REGISTRY

The Justice Department's political propaganda machine is at it again
("Firearms program pays dividend of safety" - The Ottawa Citizen, Page A11,
Saturday, February 26, 2000). David Austin's letter sounds more like a
speech by a political hack in the House of Commons than a supposedly
unbiased servant of the public.

Better background checks - not the gun registry - were responsible for the
1,260 revoked and refused firearms licences and the blocking of 269 legal
gun sales. The federal government could have implemented better background
checks twenty years ago using the old Firearms Acquisition Certificate
program. It is an insult to the intelligence of your readers to claim the
gun registry is responsible for these recent results.

Last year, the United States blocked 160,000 gun sales without spending a
dime on a gun registration scheme. So far, the Liberals have wasted more
than $300 million tax dollars to implement another billion-dollar
boondoggle.


Sincerely,





Garry Breitkreuz, MP
Yorkton-Melville
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
(613) 992-4394