The federal government will be looking at eliminating the long gun registry.
The registry has been a battle ground between the left and right since it was passed in 1993.
"We have said that we are going to scrap it today and that's exactly what we are going to do," MP Candice Hoeppner said.
Several Edmontonians agree with the decision to kill the registry.
"To me it was extra paperwork that never really needed to be there," Yanira Sale said.
"All of a sudden we became criminals because we didn't have them registered," Stony Plain farmer Albert Wagner told CTV News.
But not everyone thinks scrapping the registry would be a good idea.
"It's going to be harder for us," Mario Hamel with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police said.
"It's going to be longer for us for our investigations," he explained.
"I don't think that's a good use of taxpayers dollars," Solicitor General Jonathan Denis said with regards to developing a provincial gun registry.
"Alberta will not ever start it's own long guy registry," Denis said.
The records from the registry will also be destroyed.
With files from Sean Amato
