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You even went to the trouble of acquiring a transport permit to carry a gun from your home to an approved shooting range, locked in a case in your locked trunk. And you’ve “held it” on the way home, rather than stopping to pee at a gas station because, technically, that’s what Canadian law requires.

If you are an official gun “collector,” you’ve even agreed to let police search your home randomly, without notice, once or twice a year.

In other words, you’ve jumped through every new hoop Ottawa could think up to burden law-abiding gun owners in the name of solving gun crime. And now you learn that’s still not enough. If they can figure out a way to do it, the Liberals want to take away any handguns you own altogether.

All of that’s frustrating enough. But here’s something you maybe didn’t know that’ll blow your lid: No one who has been banned by the courts from owning firearms is subject to the same scrutiny.

Neither Canada’s criminal justice system nor its police information computers keeps track of the whereabouts of people subject to “weapons prohibition orders.”

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The federal firearms centre reports that there are nearly 450,000 convicted criminals “who have been prohibited from owning firearms,“ including thousands who should be “monitored closely because of their high risk to … acquire firearms illegally and use firearms in the commission of a subsequent offence.”

Yet, the federal government doesn’t keep track of people who have been banned from owning guns as closely as it keeps track of ordinary duck hunters and target shooters.