When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. While Canada has recently outlawed unregistered guns, they are reluctant to arrest the newly created outlaws.

TORONTO -- Oscar Lacombe hoped to be the first person charged with possessing an unregistered rifle under Canada's controversial firearms law. But after presenting himself to police in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, he was finally told to go home.

Lacombe, 70, has spent his life on the right side of the law. A Korean War veteran, former sergeant-at-arms of the Alberta Legislature, and former bodyguard to Alberta's provincial premier, Lacombe is now willing to fight the gun law to Canada's Supreme Court.

Lacombe pleaded with the legislature on New Year's Day to arrest him. He called the law "unjust and dangerous".

While police have remanded the case to prosecutors, there is no telling if they will file charges against Lacombe. Perhaps it is fear of submitting the law to a Constitutional challenge that keeps Canadian lawmakers from enforcing it.

In typical political fashion, the costs of the Canadian registry that had originally been estimated to be a mere $1.3 million have ballooned to over $550 million (only off by 42307%). This has led to eight of Canada's ten provinces to call for a suspension of the registry. Despite the criticism, the imperial Canadian government is holding firm, and warns scofflaws that the unofficial moratorium on enforcement was not going to last much longer.