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Originally Posted by CanadaGoose
At the end of the day I can understand where supporters of the registry are coming from (not implying you are one of them either), it just boggles my mind how much money they've dumped into such a shitty mickey mouse system. It's nothing more then a tangled web of bureaucratic shit to give the illusion of control and safety, completely at the expense of people like my convenience.
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~$100M a year wasted on what should be a glorified DB.
The police use figures are very much skewed since querying the gun registry is now standard procedure for most actions. The stats that showed how often the gun registry resulted in a hit was ridiculously low, to the point where any officer has a better chance of winning the lottery than encountering a registered gun - and the lottery still doesn't pay out as much as the registry costs each year.
I am against the current state of the registry. If it was just a website with a DB behind it and minimal tech support to keep going I'd be fine with a couple $M wasted each year, yet ~$100M is dumb.