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Originally Posted by Yakk
A theoretical benefit from a gun registry:
Now one could argue that this is a dumb idea, and not worth the cost.
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I dunno, has an actual crime been solved with the registry? I think the 2 billion dollars would have been better spent on more cops or community programs.
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Originally Posted by Yakk
For my part, I see little difference between registering handguns and registering long arms. They are both devices designed to kill the target you are aiming at, and they both have non-lethal sporting uses. Why the distinction?
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Concealment. Why a .32 is prohibited and a .38 isn't, I don't know, you'll have to ask Alan Rock.
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Originally Posted by Yakk
Cost overruns:
From what I can tell (based off some slightly insider knowledge), one large reason why the costs ballooned was a bunch of poor amendments tacked onto the bill that ended up causing huge implementation difficulties. The data in the long arm registry had to be secret, shared nationally by police, yet completely seperate from any other network that the police used. This required building a national physically secure network. Then the first attempt (or two) failed to work because of the scale of the problem.
We had politicians designing the specs for an IT network.
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