Testimony of William V. Baker, Firearms Commissioner

before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

October 23, 2003

POLICE USE THE REGISTRY 1,500 TIMES A DAY (BUT)

"The comment was made earlier about police access. Actually we're looking at about 1,500 accesses through the system a day, not a week."

BUT MR. BAKER ADMITTED HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY (AND)

"Certainly, one of the things we have been discussing with police agencies in the country is how we might get a better handle on how the information—the licensing and the registration and the public safety education—is helping them to accomplish their job and we still have a way to go."

AND IT WILL "PROBABLY" TAKE TWO MORE YEARS FOR HIM TO FIND OUT!

"On your specific question on criminality associated with registered guns, again, because the registration system is so new, we don't have enough experience with it, nor do the police forces, to be able to have a good indicator of that direct result. That will probably be a couple of years."

CONFIRMING WHAT THE LIBERALS HAVE PREVIOUSLY STATED, THAT THEY ARE UNABLE TO DEFEND THEIR CLAIMS ABOUT POLICE USE OF THE GUN REGISTRY SYSTEM: http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/Article120.htm

AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, MR. BAKER ADMITTED THE BILLION-DOLLAR REGISTRY WON’T TELL POLICE WHERE THE REGISTERED GUNS ARE ACTUALLY STORED

“Thank you for making that correction. It is true that as I understand there's no requirement that they be necessarily for instance in the domestic home or they could be somewhere else.”

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING ON OCTOBER 23, 2003

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/standing_committee_on_justice.htm