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Originally Posted by Ch28
Let's talk about Stephen, shall we?
- Scrapped the long-gun Registry in its entirety, despite pleas for law enforcement for the data contained therein.
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I knew this would come up eventually.
The LGR was a bloated pig that did little to protect the public, firearm related homicides have been on the decline since the 1970's, which predates the LGR entirely. The one to two billion dollars that had been spent leading up to the elimination of the LGR could have been allocated elsewhere to greater effect. Estimates put the actual compliance to the LGR at around 50-65%, which means that 35-50% of the actual non-restricted firearms in the country were hidden away by their owners without a trace.
"The statistics show that police recover registered long guns in just 1% of homicides. During the eight years from 2003 to 2010, there were 4,811 homicides; 1,485 of those involved firearms; only 45 featured long guns registered to the accused. In none of these few cases have the police been able to say that the long-gun registry provided the identity of the murderer."
Source:
Why the long-gun registry doesn?t work ? and never did | National Post
The simple answer is that criminals weren't aquiring guns legally, which is an arguement that has come up time and time again resulting in the same conclusion (that it's true). Another important point to note is that statistically, criminals favour handguns, which have been restricted
and force registered since 1935. Yet, the majority of firearm homicides in Canada are still committed with handguns.
Another favourite within the criminal element are automatic firearms, which are prohibited entirely for private ownership in Canada, though we still see them being used (although sparingly) on the streets.
Random sources:
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/0...eted-shooting/
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2..._shooting.html
The FBI kindly supplies relevant statistics to the public online for anyone to view, in which it clearly shows that handguns kill more people in the Unites States alone than rifles, shotguns, fists, knives, explosives, and/or other miscellanious devices combined. Deaths related to fist fights alone shadowed murders with rifles and shotguns, the same firearms that the LGR intended to keep track of.
The pattern does not change when you come back over the border, though it is proportionally smaller due to our population. You don't see Canadian street gangs hauling around M1 Garands to knock over convenience stores, and yet that is exactly the type of firearm the LGR was built for. The RCMP has always been against private ownership of firearms, so it's no surprise that they would tell the public how much of a god send the LGR was, despite the LGR only listing the make, model, and serial number of firearms that belonged to legal firearm owners (see above for uselessness).
To put a cherry on this cake, let me give you a simple rundown of how idiotic the RCMP is regarding how they classify firearms.
Non-restricted (go out into the bush shooting):
http://www.tacticalimports.ca/gm6-lynx-p-3.html
Restricted (only shoot in designated gun ranges):
http://gun-shop.ca/product/beretta-cx4-storm-9mm/
/end rant.