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This is an e-mail that came from the north country...Now I know many makes of guns and especially older and imported guns have duplicated serial numbers- some have all the same serial number- but maybe some Canadians know if the rest is true.....
If it is maybe we can send their gun registry some of our USDA bureaucrats..... :wink: :???:
We didn't make this up
>Canada's two billion dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats,
>who
>>spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.
>>
>>By comparison, Canada hired only 130 additional customs officers to
>>protect our borders after Sept.11.
>>
>>Here are a few more eye-rolling facts about the gun registry,
>>mostly unearthed by MP Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan.
>>
>>Internal audits show that government bureaucrats have a 71% error
>>rate in licensing gun owners and a 91% error rate in registering
>>the guns themselves.
>>
>>The government admits it registered 718,414 guns without serial
>>numbers. That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them
>>down, or the guns didn't have serial numbers in the first place.
>>That's as useless as registering a vehicle simply as "a blue Ford
>>Explorer."
>>
>>To these gun owners, the government has sent little stickers with
>>made-up "serial numbers" on them, that gun owners are supposed to
>>stick on their guns. And everybody at the gun registry is praying
>>that criminals who steal those guns won't peel off the stickers.
>>
>>Some 222,911 guns were registered with the same make and serial
>>number as other guns. That's not just useless -- it's dangerous..If
>>someone else with a "Blue Ford Explorer" is involved in a hit and
>>run, you'll be the one getting a knock on the door by the RCMP.
>>
>>Out of 4,114,624 gun registration certificates, 3,235,647 had blank
>>or missing entries -- but the bureaucrats issued them anyways.
>>
>>In the beginning, the government's firearms licenses had
>>photographs on them - just like driver's licenses do. But after
>>hundreds of gun owners were sent licenses with someone else's photo
>>on them, the government decided to scrap photos on the licenses
>>altogether, rather than fix the problem.
>>
>>Private details about every gun owner in the country are put on one
>>computer database, called CPIC. That's valuable information to a
>>peeping tom -- or a criminal. The CPIC computer has been breached
>>221 times since the mid-1990s, according to the RCMP.
>>
>>In August of 2002, the gun registry sent a letter to Hulbert Orser,
>>demanding he register his guns, and warning him that it's a crime
>>not t
rser died in 1981.
>>
>>Garth Rizzuto is not dead, but he's getting older -- he applied for
>>a gun license 2 1/2 years ago.He hasn't been rejected. They're
>>still "processing" his application.
>>
>>Some 304,375 people were allowed to register guns even though they
>>didn't have a license permitting them to own a gun.
>>
>>On March 1 of 2002, bureaucrats registered Richard Buckley's
>>soldering "gun" - that's right, a heat "gun" used for welding tin
>>and lead. No word yet on Buckley's staple guns or glue guns.
>>
>>Some 15,381 gun owners were licensed with no indication of having
>>taken the gun safety courses -- one of the main arguments for
>>licensing.
>>
>>Despite the billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy, gun-owners must still
>>pay $279 for the required licenses, registration, photo ID and
>>other costs to register a single gun. That's as much as a gun costs
>>in the first place. It's a tax -- a tax on rural Canada.
>>
>>The government spent $29 million on advertising for the gun
>>registry -- including $4.5 million to Group-Action, the Liberal ad
>>firm now under RCMP investigation.
>>
>>But all of these follies are trivial compared to the central,
>>unanswerable flaw in the gun registry: Since only law-abiding gun
>>owners will register their guns, how can the registry stop
>>criminals?
>>
>>If you think this is information all Canadians should have, forward
>>it, ask your political representatives about these facts. You don't
>>have to be a gun
>owner to have concerns on the questionable actions taken and
>situation we
>Maybe there is a better way?
If it is maybe we can send their gun registry some of our USDA bureaucrats..... :wink: :???:
We didn't make this up
>Canada's two billion dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats,
>who
>>spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.
>>
>>By comparison, Canada hired only 130 additional customs officers to
>>protect our borders after Sept.11.
>>
>>Here are a few more eye-rolling facts about the gun registry,
>>mostly unearthed by MP Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan.
>>
>>Internal audits show that government bureaucrats have a 71% error
>>rate in licensing gun owners and a 91% error rate in registering
>>the guns themselves.
>>
>>The government admits it registered 718,414 guns without serial
>>numbers. That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them
>>down, or the guns didn't have serial numbers in the first place.
>>That's as useless as registering a vehicle simply as "a blue Ford
>>Explorer."
>>
>>To these gun owners, the government has sent little stickers with
>>made-up "serial numbers" on them, that gun owners are supposed to
>>stick on their guns. And everybody at the gun registry is praying
>>that criminals who steal those guns won't peel off the stickers.
>>
>>Some 222,911 guns were registered with the same make and serial
>>number as other guns. That's not just useless -- it's dangerous..If
>>someone else with a "Blue Ford Explorer" is involved in a hit and
>>run, you'll be the one getting a knock on the door by the RCMP.
>>
>>Out of 4,114,624 gun registration certificates, 3,235,647 had blank
>>or missing entries -- but the bureaucrats issued them anyways.
>>
>>In the beginning, the government's firearms licenses had
>>photographs on them - just like driver's licenses do. But after
>>hundreds of gun owners were sent licenses with someone else's photo
>>on them, the government decided to scrap photos on the licenses
>>altogether, rather than fix the problem.
>>
>>Private details about every gun owner in the country are put on one
>>computer database, called CPIC. That's valuable information to a
>>peeping tom -- or a criminal. The CPIC computer has been breached
>>221 times since the mid-1990s, according to the RCMP.
>>
>>In August of 2002, the gun registry sent a letter to Hulbert Orser,
>>demanding he register his guns, and warning him that it's a crime
>>not t
rser died in 1981.>>
>>Garth Rizzuto is not dead, but he's getting older -- he applied for
>>a gun license 2 1/2 years ago.He hasn't been rejected. They're
>>still "processing" his application.
>>
>>Some 304,375 people were allowed to register guns even though they
>>didn't have a license permitting them to own a gun.
>>
>>On March 1 of 2002, bureaucrats registered Richard Buckley's
>>soldering "gun" - that's right, a heat "gun" used for welding tin
>>and lead. No word yet on Buckley's staple guns or glue guns.
>>
>>Some 15,381 gun owners were licensed with no indication of having
>>taken the gun safety courses -- one of the main arguments for
>>licensing.
>>
>>Despite the billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy, gun-owners must still
>>pay $279 for the required licenses, registration, photo ID and
>>other costs to register a single gun. That's as much as a gun costs
>>in the first place. It's a tax -- a tax on rural Canada.
>>
>>The government spent $29 million on advertising for the gun
>>registry -- including $4.5 million to Group-Action, the Liberal ad
>>firm now under RCMP investigation.
>>
>>But all of these follies are trivial compared to the central,
>>unanswerable flaw in the gun registry: Since only law-abiding gun
>>owners will register their guns, how can the registry stop
>>criminals?
>>
>>If you think this is information all Canadians should have, forward
>>it, ask your political representatives about these facts. You don't
>>have to be a gun
>owner to have concerns on the questionable actions taken and
>situation we
>Maybe there is a better way?
