The head of the Canadian firearms centre admitted that the cost of Canada's problem-infested gun registry will run taxpayers north of the border over a billion dollars by next year.

This is the first time that the Canadian government has admitted that this boondoggle will carry such a price tag.

Auditor General Sheila Fraser predicted that costs would be this high in her caustic report of last year, and officials have now admitted almost $50 million in "indirect" costs of the program that they have now been forced to add to the total of $766 million through the beginning of this year alone.

The government has had to add another $128 million for the program this year, bringing the total to $941 million.

And Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, an outspoken opponent of the troubled program, says there are future costs, that have not yet been taken into account, which will bring the total well over a billion dollars.

"This is going to go over the $1-billion mark a full year ahead of schedule, and most of it is due to the astonishingly poor management of the program," he said.

"This tells us the thing is out of control beyond what the government even led us to believe originally. The spending on this thing is considerably worse than the auditor general found," Breitkreuz added.

There were an estimated 16,500,000 firearms in Canada in 2001 = $60 to register each gun

There are an estimated 450,000,000 firearms in the U.S. (with 4.9 million new guns added to the mix each year, currently).

Does this mean that if they tried to register all the guns in the U.S. that it would cost 450,000,000 x $60? That would be 27 billion dollars!!!!