Gun registry fight could give Tories a majority

If the gun registry bill dies at the hand of a concerted opposition barrage, that lost battle will be put to use in the fight for a Conservative majority. That is very much a war of attrition that is being fought on a seat-by-seat basis accross rural Cana

MONTREAL—With Parliament adjourned for the summer, a major skirmish in the Conservative battle for a governing majority has moved to 20 opposition ridings spread across rural and Northern Canada.

They are the ridings of eight Liberals and 12 New Democrats who voted against the long gun registry in a House of Commons vote last fall.

At the time, their support allowed a Conservative private member's bill designed...