Quebec gun registry if Ottawa scraps current one

The Canadian Press:

Quebec - Quebec is considering the idea of having its own long-gun registry if the federal government scraps the current version.

Public Security Minister Robert Dutil told The Canadian Press that civil servants are considering a so-called "plan B" — a provincial registry — if the Conservatives deliver on their promise to ditch the federal one.

"Certainly the people in the department have been told to look at all possibilities and to see how we could react to any number of circumstances," Dutil said in an interview.

But the priority remains convincing the Tories that the registry should be kept alive, Dutil said. Keeping the pressure on Ottawa is a task that lies with Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Pierre Moreau.

The federal government reiterated in its throne speech last month that it wants to kill the 16-year-old registry.

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