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Originally Posted by TheNewGirl

The police most commonly use the gun registry when responding to calls at house holds, particularly disturbance and domestic violence calls to ascertain if there's weapons potentially in the house hold. This allows them to be prepared with non lethal interventions upon arrival.

If what you say is true, then their system is dangerously flawed. The registry provides no bearing whatsoever on whether or not the household actually contains a firearm, and whether or not someone inside is going to use it. No cop will stroll into a grow-op because the system shows no firearms registered to the address, likewise I would find it completely unreasonable for a SWAT team to show up at grandpa joe's house because he has a world war 1 rifle registered, and he got mad and was yelling at the tv and spooked a neighbor.

I understand it's better to err on the side of caution when it comes to things like firearms, but in actuality, it's only being done because there's a stigma attached to them. Realistically a car (3000lb bullet) can inflict way more damage then any firearm can, and is practically concealable in plain sight; can often be bought for a fraction of the cost of a firearm, and driven by ANYBODY, licensed or not....should there not be stricter regulations on them? What about knives? Knives are entwined in more violence then firearms are, why are they not subject to a registry?

With the amount of money wasted on the long gun registry, Canada could've sent a man to the moon. Now that would've been something we could all admire. Absolutely nobody is amazed or impressed by our stellar gun registry here....