Canadian Firearms Program
Junius explains that gun-registry math
How journalists and politicians got the idea it costs just $4 million a year
A phony gun battle
Killing the long-gun registry won’t be the folly critics suggest. But it won’t be the liberation gun owners may be hoping for either.
A wasteful, ineffective, important tool to promote public safety
The RCMP’s evaluation of the Canadian Firearms Program—which you didn’t need to see because the Public Safety Minister’s office had already told you what you needed to know—is officially released today. Canadian Press had an early look and the CBC posted a leaked copy. The following from the report’s findings.
Recalling how police use the gun registry, and how very, very often
Last spring, just after Prime Minister Stephen Harper revived scrapping the gun registry as a Conservative priority, I tried to find out how useful the registry is to police.