The federal Liberals introduced legislation yesterday that would see rules around gun ownership and sales become more stringent.

Sellers would have to hang on to records of inventory and sales for two decades, and people buying shotguns and rifles would have to show a valid license.

Henry Banman, who's been an organizer of Swift Current gun and hobby shows for four decades, doesn't see a need for more legislation to be drawn up.

"We had a long gun registry. We registered all long guns, and it didn't do a thing, other than it cost a wack of a lot of money, and it had zero productivity at the end of the day," he claimed.

Meanwhile, Banman said certain people ought not to be able to have guns.

"If they just used the laws that they have now, for the firearms that we have in this country, we don't need any more laws," he said. "They might become a little more stringent in their background checks, I have no problem with that. If people are not nice people they shouldn't have guns and I'd be the first to admit that and say that. But it's not the firearms that are causing that problem, it's the person that is acquiring that gun, and we need to start looking at people in that way and leave the good people alone to enjoy the firearms that they have."

The legislation would have to pass three readings in the House of Commons and go through the senate before receiving royal assent and becoming law.