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A Manhattan judge threw a demented gun nut in prison for 20 years after rejecting his lawyer's claim that he's just a harmless sharpshooting fan.

"There's paintball, for heaven's sake," Manhattan Criminal Court Justice Edward McLaughlin countered while sentencing weaponry fanatic Suwei Chuang - caught downtown two years ago with a $15,000 Bushmaster assault rifle and more than 800 rounds of ammo in the back seat of his SUV.

Chuang, 37 - scion of a wealthy, Flushing-based real-estate family - faces additional charges in Queens for allegedly conducting gruesome ballistics experiments on dogs in a basement shooting range he'd stocked with seven more rifles.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02252009/news/regionalnews/queens/qns__gun_nut_gets_20_years_156876.htm
 
evince said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Canada#Violent_crime.2C_suicide_and_accidents_in_Canada

Violent crime in Canada is down since they started registration in 1993
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1) there doesn't appear to be a constitutional right to bear arms in canada, so any laws up there are probably fair game.

FTA - It has been estimated that as many as five million gun-owning Canadians have not registered their firearms. As of June 2003, only 6.4 million firearms had been registered, despite a 1974 estimate of 10 million guns in Canada. In February 2003, the government announced plans to strengthen the administration of the gun control program. Two days before the election in May 2004, the government dropped all fees for transferring firearms.

so it appears that a law mandating registration really isn't working and can hardly account for the crime drop. You're reading something in to it that just isn't there.
 
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