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Originally Posted by MindBomber
The entire gun registry costs $66.4 million dollars for the 2010-2011 fiscal year; the conservative government claims the long gun registry costs $65 million per year and thus should be scraped. A huge component of the argument for scrapping it is the cost, but claiming that long guns make up 97.8% of the gun registries total cost is ridiculous. What's wrong with this statement?
The total cost to date is irrelevant, scrapping it now won't make the money come back, it's not like we can sell it to someone.
If the gun registry was scrapped, then when a fire arm is sold it would disappear into oblivion and it would become easier for it to find it's way into a criminals hands and tracking ownership prevents that, am I wrong? That's my understanding and it's really hard to sort through the tide of partisan bull shit and find solid answers.
I'm not a big supporter or the gun registry in it's current form, I'm sure the money could be used in a more effective way, I'm just a supporter of gun control. If a system were proposed where the registry were scrapped and the money directed towards a more effective system then I would be hugely in support of that.
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The Gun registry is a total waste of money and time, here is a prime example of how useless it is, a Manitoba man registered his soldering gun/heat gun as a firearm and received a registration certificate in the mail. Shows you that none of the applications get even reviewed and checked before being processed.
http://www.rangebob.com/OttawaCitize...ertificate.pdf
Also Gun control doesn't work, show me any statistics that prove it works, don't just spew emotional bullshit that you thought up "oh if we limit guns, there would be less violence"
Also a Quebec man managed to register his Fuller Screwdriver as a firearm and was issued a registration certificate as well.