Canada’s Long Gun Registration Ended
Canada sank $2.7 billion into a pointless project
The program has been cancelled.
Even though the country started registering long guns in 1998, the registry never solved a single murder. Instead it has been an enormous waste of police officers’ time, diverting their efforts from patrolling Canadian streets and doing traditional policing activities…The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chiefs of Police have not yet provided a single example in which tracing was of more than peripheral importance in solving a case.
For what it’s worth, the fact that gun registration has not even once proved useful for murder solving INCLUDES the handgun registry, which has been in effect since 1934.
Not. Once. Ever.
Via Of Arms & the Law.
2 Responses to “Canada’s Long Gun Registration Ended”
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How do you do this “get rid of bad laws” thing? The US could really use some of that mojo. I mean seriously. Once something like this is enshrined in law in the US, it is frigging as permanent as death and taxes. “Think of all the jobs that will be lost if we fire everyone involved with this!”
Props to the Canucks for doing something that make sense. Now if you could just get rid of the handgun and hi-cap bans.
On that note, I think all laws passed in the US should come with an expiration date not to exceed 10 years and they must then pass House, Senate, and the President’s desk before being renewed.
If someone wants something more permanent, get a Constitutional amendment.