With a new Conservative government elected (although it is a minority), this discussion may not be as crucial.I got an email from a friend that indicated that some MP’s in the west did some fact finding into the registry blunder. The MP’s name is shared, but to be honest it was not on official goverment letterhead. The source is not identified. You decide what you take from it. In my thinking, I disregarded the percentages but the other concerns the aritcle reveals are very real. Like me, you may even get a chuckle out of it.

The Article:
Canada’s 2 billion-dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who
spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.

By comparison, Canada hired only 130 additional customs officers to
protect our borders after Sept.11.

Here are a few more eye-rolling facts about the gun registry, mostly
unearthed by MP Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan.

Internal audits show that government bureaucrats have a 71% error
rate in licensing gun owners and a 91% error rate in registering the guns
themselves.

The government admits it registered 718,414 guns without serial
numbers. That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them down, or the guns didn’t have serial numbers in the first place. That’s as useless as registering a vehicle simply as “a blue Ford Explorer.

To these gun owners, the government has sent little stickers with made-up
“serial numbers” on them, that gun owners are supposed to stick on their
guns. And everybody at the gun registry is praying that criminals who
steal those guns won’t peel off the stickers.

Some 222,911 guns were registered with the same make and serial
number as other guns. That’s not just useless — it’s dangerous..If someone
else with a “Blue Ford Explorer” is involved in a hit and run, you’ll be the one getting a knock on the door by the RCMP. Out of 4,114,624 gun registration certificates, 3,235,647 had blank or missing entries — but the bureaucrats issued them anyways. In the beginning, the government’s firearms licenses had photographs on them – just like driver’s licenses do. But after hundreds of gun owners were sent licenses with someone else’s photo on them, the government decided to scrap photos on the licenses altogether, rather than fix the problem.

Private details about every gun owner in the country are put on one computer database, called CPIC. That’s valuable information to a peeping tom or a criminal. The CPIC computer has been breached 221 times since the
mid-1990s, according to the RCMP.

In August of 2002, the gun registry sent a letter to Hulbert Orser,
demanding he register his guns, and warning him that it’s a crime not
to.Orser died in 1981.

Garth Rizzuto is not dead, but he’s getting older — he applied for a
gun license 2 1/2 years ago.He hasn’t been rejected. They’re still
“processing” his application.

Some 304,375 people were allowed to register guns even though they
didn’t have a license permitting them to own a gun.

On March 1 of 2002, bureaucrats registered Richard Buckley’s soldering
“gun” – that’s right, a heat “gun” used for welding tin and lead. No word
yet on Buckley’s staple guns or glue guns.

Some 15,381 gun owners were licensed with no indication of having
taken the gun safety courses — one of the main arguments for licensing.

Despite the billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy, gun-owners must still
pay $279 for the required licenses, registration, photo ID and other costs to register a single gun. That’s as much as a gun costs in the first
place.

It’s a tax — a tax on rural Canada.

The government spent $29 million on advertising for the gun registry
including $4.5 million to Group-Action, the Liberal ad firm now under
RCMP investigation.

But all of these follies are trivial compared to the central,
unanswerable flaw in the gun registry: Since only law-abiding gun owners will register their guns, how can the registry stop criminals?
If you think this is information all Canadians should have, forward
it, ask your political representatives about these facts. You don’t have to
be a gun owner to have concerns on the questionable actions taken and
situation we are in.

Looks like some government officials in New York should consider the above. I was reading over at The Orange Vest about some legislation header their way.

http://theorangevest.com/anti-gun-package-heads-to-ny-senate/

also:

there are reports that government officials in Montana mess-up important details with their registry procedures.

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-Bill

Muskoka Outdoors