Canada's military is faced with a half a billion dollar budget shortage, yet as Kevin Baker points out, they still managed to find more than $620 million (that's more than half a billion for you government educated kids out there) to fund their national gun database.

For the record, Canadian gun registration was estimated to cost a mere $2 million. That estimate balooned to $1 Billion by 2005, and was further revised to $1 Billion by 2004. Also, the gun registry is such a miserable failure that several Canadian provinces are refusing to enforce it.