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... to be derived from restricting gun ownership in the general population.”19 ...t $85 million over five years. By 2000, costs exceeded $500 million.23 In December, 2002, Auditor General Sheila Fraser released a report indicating that cost

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McCarthy got on the gun grab bandwagon after [[December 7]], [[1993]], when her husband was killed and her son was severely injured ...ot the Great Butthurt from the special election in Massachusetts [[January 19]], she backed off.