Doin' The Numbers

Guns Magazine, Feb, 2001

$60

The fee Canadians must pay, as of Dec. 31, to obtain a gun-owner's license. Prior to that date, the government had been charging only $10 in order to encourage compliance with the new license requirement.

Source: Calgary Herald

4

Number of hours some Canadian gun owners had to stand in line for the "privilege" of obtaining a firearms license as the deadline approached.

370,000

Reported backlog of unrecorded licensees which exists at the Canadian Firearms Centre--any one of whom could be charged with owning. a gun without a license if they were to be apprehended by police.