XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, bc.politics   
   XPost: ab.politics   
   From: weasel@stew.yum   
      
   On 3/28/2014 6:06 PM, {~_~} Раиса wrote:   
   > Globalnews.ca - March 27, 2014   
   >   
   >   
   > How will the RCMP enforce new long-gun ban with no long-gun registry?   
   >   
   > Late last month, the RCMP made changes to a national gun database   
   > prohibiting two kinds of semi-automatic rifles. Gun owners are up in   
   > arms; so is the Public Safety Minister, although he’s powerless to   
   > reverse the ban (for now).   
   >   
   > What isn’t clear is how police will enforce that rule if they no longer   
   > know who in Canada owns those guns.   
   >   
   > According to a redacted copy of the national firearms database made   
   > before long-gun data was deleted, obtained by Global News under   
   > access-to-information laws, this ban appears to affect about 8,000   
   > rifles – just over 60 per cent of them in B.C. and Alberta.   
   >   
   > Compensating all affected owners would cost about $8.8 million.   
   >   
   > But that data reflects the long-gun registry data as it was in mid-2012.   
   > Assuming the ban sticks, how would police remove all 8,000 rifles from   
   > circulation within two years?   
   >   
   > The reclassification is the first time since the deletion of the long   
   > gun registry that a non-restricted firearm has been prohibited.   
   > Previously, the RCMP would have used the registry to trace affected   
   > firearms and compensate affected owners.   
   >   
   > How will it work now?   
   >   
   > “[The RCMP] would inform provincial Chief Firearms Officers, post a   
   > notice to its website, inform callers when they call the CFP toll-free   
   > information line and issue special bulletins to firearms businesses and   
   > police,” says RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Julie Gagnon.   
   >   
   > That leaves out any plan to actually enforce the rule, however – an   
   > inability critics of the long-gun registry’s abolishment predicted at   
   > the time.   
      
   Oh my, they'll just have to rely on voluntary compliance, like they did   
   before the LGR.   
      
   PS. Do you know how satisfying it was to see the LGR go bye-bye?  It was   
   like a giant turd that just wouldn't go down, but finally, after   
   toggling the handle many times, it flushed.  And all the supporters of   
   the LGR flushed with it.   
      
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