EXCERPT FROM THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S DECEMBER 2002 REPORT TO PARLIAMENT
The program became excessively regulatory
10.67
In February 2001, the Department told the Government it had wanted to
focus on the minority of firearms owners that posed a high risk while
minimizing the impact on the overwhelming majority of law-abiding
owners. However, the Department concluded that this did not happen.
Rather, it stated that the Program's focus had changed from high risk
firearms owners to excessive regulation and enforcement of controls
over all owners and their firearms. The Department concluded that, as a
result, the Program had become overly complex and very costly to
deliver, and that it had become difficult for owners to comply with the
Program.
10.68 The Department said the excessive regulation had occurred because some of its Program partners believed that
* the use of firearms is in itself a "questionable activity" that required strong controls, and
* there should be a zero-tolerance attitude toward non-compliance with the Firearms Act..
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