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"Another expensive, dismal failure that came from a
top-down, expert-driven, policy-based law." "Several years and
perhaps a billion dollars later the bill is a shambles - it is a joke," says Roger Galloway, the Liberal Member of
Parliament for Sarnia Lambton.
You know the Registry stinks when LIBERALS
are calling their own Gun Registry a JOKE.
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Startup
Costs:
$2 billion 1995 -
2005($200 million/year)
Operational Costs: $100 million/yearly
Recovery Costs from the firearms community:
| Principal payment fee: |
$286/gun*
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| Licence fee: |
$80**/5
years |
| Handgun Licence fee: |
$80***/5
years |
| Yearly Registration fee: |
$25/firearm |
| Transfer of gun fee: |
$25 |
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Non-Compliance
Licencing
non-compliance |
70% |
Handgun Registration
non-compliance |
70% |
Long gun Registration
non-compliance |
70% |
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| * |
$2 Billion Cost / 7 million registered guns = $286/gun
recoup start up costs. |
| ** |
Required to take a $50 gun
safety course.. |
| *** |
Requires a restricted firearm
handling course |
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Licencing and Registration
Non-Compliance:
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70% of licenced handgun
owners have not registered their handguns.
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530,000 licenced gun owners
have not registered their long guns.
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Over 5+ million gun owners do
not have a licence and have not registered any
guns.
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Over 70% of all guns in Canada
are not registered - approximately 20+ million guns in total with
approximately 7 million guns registered.
Yet the government wants us to believe that there is a 90%
compliance rate.
Just how many firearms and owners are their in Canada?
# of guns in Canada according to the Liberals: 16.5 Million (Dec 13/01)
# of guns according to the 1976 Liberal Party: 10.5 million (Mar 19/76)
# of guns in Canada according to the NFA/LUFA: 21 Million (NFA)
# of guns in Canada according to Gov't Canadian Firearms Center:7+million, CFC changes this number yearly to mislead Canadians into thinking they have 90% compliance.
# of gun owners in Canada according to the Liberals: 3.3 Million (May 19/98)
# of gun owners in Canada according to NFA/LUFA: 7 Million (NFA)
# of guns registered: 6,896,948 (Jul 20/04)
# of registration issued without owner's name: all of them 6,896,948 (May 27/02 1 2)
# of licenced gun owners still to register their guns: 406,834 (Jul 20/04)
# of guns registered without Serial #: 728,046 (Aug 29/02 1 2)
# of guns registration forms with blank and unknown entries: 3,235,647 (Aug 29/02)
# of guns in registry still have to be Verified: 5.1 Million (Sep 9/03 1 2)
# of stolen guns registered that weren't supposed to be: 4,438 (Sep 11/03)
# of guns lost by and stolen from the RCMP: 108 (Sep 3/03)
# of guns lost by and stolen from the Defence Dept: 409 (Jul4/02)
# of "Stickers" issued for guns without Serial #s: 813,822 (Nov 1/02)
# registered with same serial numbers as stolen guns: 250,305 (Sep 11/03)
# of foreign firearms gov't has lost track of: 288,688 (Jan 15/04 1 2 3 )
# of employees working in the gun registry: 1,800 (April 12/01 - Feb 21/02)
# of Provinces opted out of the gun registry: 8 (August 29/01)
# of Provinces refusing to prosecute Firearm Act offences: 8 (Sep 13/03)
Percentage of people that want the Registry scrapped: 76.7% (Oct 30/03 1 2 3 4 5 6)
# of crimes solved with Handgun Registry: Gov't doesn't know (May 8/96)
# of crimes solved with Registered Handguns: Gov't doesn't know (Mar 9/04 1 2)
# of guns registered with same make & serial number: 222,911 (Mar 23/02)
# of duplicate firearms registration certificates issued: 26,800 (Jul 11/02)
# of owners of Registered Handguns without a licence: 304,375 (May 27/02 1
2)
# of gun licence holders gov't has lost track of: 38,629 (Feb 27/02)
# of registered handgun owners RCMP lost track of: 11,801 (Nov 18/02)
# of duplicate firearms licences issued: 832 (Jan 24/02)
# of firearms licences issued with wrong photo: 259 (Mar 18/02)
Error Rate in firearms licences: 71% (Apr 28/00)
Error Rate in firearms registration applications: 90% + 42% (Jul 18/01 1 2)
# of known breaches of Police CPIC System from 1995 - May 2003: 306 (Feb 12/04 1 2 3)
License issued without a firearms safety course: 15,381 (Jul 11/02)
# of background checks completed: Gov't doesn't know (Jun 3/03)
Gov't claims Gun Registry has cost and will cost: $1.4 Billion (Nov 24/04)
# of Cost Questions the Liberals failed to answer: 26 (Nov 24/04)
# of Registry Effectiveness questions the Liberals failed to answer: 16 (Mar 22/04)
Gun Registry Major Contracts April 1996 - Dec 2003: $342 million (May 5/04)
Cost to privatize the Gun Registry: $371 million (July 18/02 1 2 3 4 5)
Cost of Enforcing the Gun Registry: Gov't doesn't know (May 26/03)
Cost of Enforcement - Liberal Study: at least a billion more (Mar 24/03)
Cost of Compliance for Firearm Owners: Gov't doesn't know (May 26/03)
Cost of Compliance - Registering Guns: 117+ Million (Jun 30/03)
Cost of Compliance - Licencing Firearm Owners: $250+ million (Jun 30/03)
Cost Benefit Analysis on the Gun Registry: A Cabinet Secret (Mar 25/03 1 2)
Number of Charter Rights violated by the firearms Act before it became law: 17 (Oct 5/02)
# of insurance companies who think owning a gun is a risk: Zero (Mar 5/03)
Violent crimes involving a firearm: 1.4% (Sep 7/00 1
2)
Percentage of robberies committed with Long Guns: 1% (Nov 15/04 1 2 3 4)
More of the above Quick Facts can be found at Garry Breitkruez, MP CPC, Firearms Critic's website: http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/firearmsquickfacts.htm
“A program can’t run without money and we’ll keep pressing the government until all the funding for this useless program is cut off completely.” - Garry Breitkreuz
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