FIREARMS FACTS - UPDATE
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TEN REASONS WHY
1.
More than 5 million firearms registered in the system still have to be
verified by the RCMP in order to ensure the accuracy of the information in the
system and in order to comply with police demands.
For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/guns73.htm
2.
Up to 4 million records in the
RCMP’s Firearms Interest Police (FIP) database have to be corrected in order
to comply with the Privacy Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
For details click here:
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/le_cfp_030117_e.asp
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FIPDatabase20011103.pdf
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/Guncontrol31.htm
3.
Seventy-eight percent of the registration certificates have entries that
were either left blank or marked “unknown” and they all have to be
corrected. (3.2 million registration certificates as of August 29, 2002). For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/BlankandUnknownEntries-Aug292002.pdf
4.
More than 540,000 gun owners still don’t have a firearms licence and
can’t register their firearms without a licence.
For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/Article56.htm
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/Article57.htm
5.
More than 300,000 owners of registered handguns don’t have a firearms
licence authorizing them to own them, and they can’t re-register their guns
without a licence.
For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/ohwhatamess.htm
6.
Up to 10 million guns still have to be registered or re-registered in the
system.
For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/GunControl50.htm
7.
The registry attempts to track 2 million completely honest citizens but
fails to track the addresses of those persons that have already been proven to
be the most dangerous. This
includes the 131,000 persons prohibited from owning firearms by the courts and
more than 9,000 persons who have had their firearms licences refused or revoked.
The law has to be amended to require these proven-to-be-dangerous persons
to report their change of address to police and give police the authority to
“inspect” their homes for illegal firearms.
For details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/policepriorities.htm
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/questions/june-3-2002response.htm
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsProhibitions.pdf
8.
On February 27, 2002, the Department of Justice admitted they had already
lost track of the addresses of 38,629 licenced firearms owners.
The department has yet to figure out a way of keeping address information
in the gun registry current let alone the cost of doing so.
This was one of the main reasons why the 69-year-old handgun registry had
between a 40% and 50% error rate. For
details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/registrationmailings.htm
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/lostowners.htm
9.
The Department of Justice has never provided any estimates for: police
enforcement costs, court time and court costs, corrections costs or the cost to
police and municipalities for collecting, recording, returning and/or destroying
firearms. For details see KPMG and
Hession/HLB Reports and click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/rebuttaltothegovernment.htm
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/questions/june-3-2002response.htm
10.
The Department of Justice has never calculated the cost to the economy
and jobs. On August 16, 1999, the department denied Parliament and the public the
entire 115-page report on economic impact of the gun registry by declaring it a
Cabinet secret.
For
details click here:
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/Guncontrol41.htm
http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/37/1/JUST/Meetings/Evidence/JUSTEV60-E.HTM
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/redtapetaxes.htm