Sounds like a "Turn in Your Neighbour" approach.
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/07/31/gun000731
Feds rely on local recruiters to license gun owners
BOIESTOWN, N.B. - With five months to go before anyone wanting to own a gun needs to register for a licence, the government is disappointed that only half a million people have signed up.
So a new program aims to get hunters to sign up for the licences by having some of their own do the recruiting.
For example, Jeannine Munn is one of the most popular residents in Boiestown, N.B. That makes her an ideal contact for the government trying to get hunters to mail in their gun licence applications.
"Well, I think it helps to break the ice with the local people," Munn said.
The government has set up mobile licensing clinics in hundreds of communities like Boiestown, and teamed up with locals like Munn.
Munn says she believes in the new licensing system, and she wants to convince her neighbours it's a good idea.
"When it comes to government, people do tend to shy away — from anything, any involvement whatsoever with the government," she said. "And I think this is one way of letting the locals know that this is something that needs to be done and it's not a bad thing."
All gun owners will need a licence to possess or acquire a firearm by 2001.
Munn has already managed to recruit her family and friends. Her son-in-law Lewis says the mobile clinic is serving its purpose in getting people to apply for their gun licences.
"Probably, if they didn't have this in the community, most of the people around here wouldn't mail it in," he said.
The mobile clinics have been highly successful in New Brunswick, with applications for new licences up nearly 30 per cent over the past month.
Still, many gun owners refuse to get a licence, and not even their neighbours can convince them to sign up.
