XPost: talk.politics.guns, can.politics, sac.politics
XPost: alt.politics.usa.republican
From: David@block.net
On 11/12/2014 6:05 PM, Truebrit wrote:
>> On 11/12/2014 12:51 AM, Bonny Scott wrote:
>>> Put yourself in a cop's shoes. You're called to a home. The
>>> registry says there are no guns in the home. But you know it's
>>> inaccurate, and you know that criminals don't register their
>>> guns.
>>>
>>> Are you going to believe what a government database tells you
>>> when it's your life on the line?
>>>
>>> The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) say the gun
>>> registry is used thousands of times a day. What they donīt say
>>> is those checks are automatic -- every time an officer runs a
>>> license.
>>>
>>> For the past year Edmonton Police Service detective Randy Kuntz
>>> has been asking his colleagues across Canada how they feel about
>>> the firearm registry. He updated his findings on April 25, 2010:
>>> 2296 for scrapping it, 209 say keep it.
>>>
>>> These results prove the CACP arguments for the registry are
>>> politically and financially motivated.
>>>
>>> Firearm registration has neither prevented nor solved a single
>>> crime. Registration can neither prevent anyone from acquiring an
>>> illegal firearm,
>>
>> David Johnston" wrote: It prevented me from acquiring a
>> firearm.
>>
>
> Legally??
To be specific, it caused me to dispose of a case of guns I inherited by
giving them to a neighbour who had a firearms certificate.
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