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Originally Posted by JLB
And why should collectors have more rights than the citizenry?
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Because if they were limited to one handgun a month, they wouldn't be able to complete their collection.
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Originally Posted by JLB
All of these bad laws happened, and the citizens could do nothing because the government knew who had the guns.
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Why would they have done anything. Some just refused to register their guns.
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Originally Posted by JLB
Individual police chiefs, however, have condemned the registry. Former RCMP Commissioner Norm Inkster stated in the National Post on 14 December 2004 that "the registry does little or nothing to help police link actual crimes to actual guns". Former Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino pointed out the registry hasn't helped Toronto police solve a single homicide and "has been of precious little help". Retired Assistant Commissioner Robert Head - a life member of the CACP - called the gun registry "the greatest waste of law enforcement funds that has ever been inflicted on the Canadian taxpayer". Borden-Carlton Police Chief Jamie Fox called the registry "...a massive waste of tax dollars that could have been spent on health care and other pressing social needs." London Police Chief Brian Collins said "It's such a disaster."
Police associations have also condemned the firearms registry. Sgt. Peter Ratcliff, as president of the Edmonton Police Association, described it as "... fraught with problems. It's taken too long, it's cost too much money, it's full of errors." The president of the Alberta Federation of Police Officers, Peter Kawalilak, said "It's a bad law, I'll say that right now." The President of the Calgary Police Association said the program has had no effect on crime and "Despite the money spent, it should be scrapped." Winnipeg Police Association president Loren Schinkel said the registry has done little to curb crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...f_the_registry
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What I was referring to was the handgun registry of 1934. The long-gun registry came in around 2002 I think, and obviously it had nothing to do with anything, because 97% of the gun being registered were hunting guns. Obviously it was a huge faliure, and a waste of money.