RCMP feared ending gun registry would hurt investigations

[R. LaCasse]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:19:31 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
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>From: "Dennis E. Lbhat" rot13
>Subject: RCMP feared ending gun registry would hurt investigations
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>RCMP feared ending gun registry would hurt investigations
>Tonda MacCharles , Ottawa Bureau - 57 Comments Published on Tuesday January
>29, 2013
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>http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1321228--rcmp-feared-ending-gun-registry-would-hurt-investigations
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>OTTAWA-As the Conservative government prepared to abolish the long-gun
>registry, the RCMP privately expressed concerns about the negative impact
>that would have on its ability to trace long guns used in crimes, according
>to government documents. The RCMP, in a memorandum marked "updated for
>(newly appointed) Commissioner Paulson - November 2011" and "under
>consideration for Cabinet Confidence," outlined "strategic considerations"
>related to ending the long-gun registry. Most of those considerations are
>redacted, or whited out, in the documents released under access legislation,
>but not the fact that savings from ending the long-gun registry would be
>minimal nor the fact that there were public safety factors to weigh.
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>The RCMP said the database of nearly seven million registered nonrestricted
>firearms is "mature and, in any given year, 95 per cent of the records are
>static, requiring minimal human resources. "There will be a relatively small
>impact on the (Canadian Firearms Program's) overall activity level and
>budget." The memo said the program works directly with front-line police
>officers and "plays a key role in tracing the illegal movement and criminal
>use of firearms both in Canada and abroad." "The loss of up-to-date
>information on nonrestricted firearms may degrade the CFP's ability to
>efficiently trace nonrestricted firearms involved in crimes," it said.
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>The RCMP said the firearms centre will continue to manage the gun-owner
>licensing program as well as thousands of court-ordered prohibitions and
>licence revocations. That's already a big job. From 2007 to 2011, more than
>2,500 firearms licence applications were refused and more than 10,000
>licences were revoked for all kinds of reasons: court-ordered prohibitions,
>drug offences or domestic violence, questions of mental fitness, and
>concerns that a person has been judged a risk to himself or others. But the
>RCMP indicated licence management would be an even tougher task without the
>long-gun records. "Law enforcement's ability to guarantee that all
>nonrestricted firearms have been seized from an individual as a result of
>court-ordered firearms revocations and prohibitions may be impacted," said
>the memo.
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>It suggested the RCMP may need to allocate more resources to "meet the level
>of service expected" by police forces here and abroad. Another undated RCMP
>memo, similarly marked "under consideration for cabinet confidence," said
>any cost savings from eliminating the long-gun registry would go to
>"enhanced security features" on licence cards "to minimize counterfeiting
>capabilities and mitigate fraudulent use during the transfer of a
>nonrestricted firearm." It said extra resources would also go to help police
>investigations associated with "the illegal movement/possession of
>nonrestricted firearms" and "on firearms tracing since NO records for
>nonrestricted firearms will be retained in Canada." Finally, it said more
>resources would be provided for chief firearms offices across Canada to help
>with business inspections, "since no records will be maintained by the
>business community for nonrestricted firearms."
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>The documents show that at one point, in August 2011, RCMP and Public Safety
>officials discussed questions about hiving off data about long guns - rifles
>and shotguns - for law enforcement purposes. "The idea of 'suppressing' is
>to firewall or seal the nonrestricted firearms information so that no one,
>except possibly the RCMP Firearms Tracing Centre, has the ability to access
>it. This way police could still access the legacy data with a warrant,"
>wrote Christina Syme, a Public Safety official, in a query to the RCMP. The
>Conservative government, however, advised the Commons last fall it had
>successfully deleted all data except that related to Quebec long-gun owners
>- data at the heart of a legal challenge by the Quebec government, which
>seeks to preserve the records for a provincial gun registry.
>
>The Coalition for Gun Control, which obtained the documents, has raised red
>flags about the loss of controls over long guns, saying the elimination of
>gun transfer provisions that would tie long guns to their buyers is
>alarming. However, the Conservative government dismissed the concerns in a
>reply to the Star. "As to the public safety concern, it is a crime
>punishable by five years in prison to sell a firearm to someone who does not
>have a licence," said Toews' spokeswoman Julie Carmichael in an email
>Thursday. A call to RCMP media relations was not returned Monday.
>
>The Star reported last week that ending the long-gun registry was pegged at
>saving the government only about $2 million a year - far below the "billion
>dollar" price tag the Conservatives long put on the registry, but within the
>previously estimated $1.9 million-$4 million figure previously provided by
>the RCMP to the government.

Subject: RCMP feared ending gun registry would hurt investigations


"Investigations"?.....as in the big shopping list, they use to
disarm the lawful gun owner.

No one is going to believe that the Firearms Act (C-68) has anything
to do with homeland security! The CFO draconian dictatorships are quite
evident as their court proceeding income show.

They say the Gun Registry costs say 4 billion dollars, sure it cost
the us/taxpayers that to pay their salary.
What it doesn't show, is the cost many lawful gun owners who shelled
out some $50,000.00 each to keep their gun permits........and that's a lot
of moolah....say, a 3 billion dollar a year industry?

They don't care for anything but one-size-fits-all law paper
industry, and that is communism, like the commonwealth that plagues us with
the BNA/Bill/Charter Rights--->>Firearms Act (C-68) and Obama Dictatorship
(executive order)....FIAT, that's just all we need to wreck our lives even
more.

Going to the slaughtered by legislation ranges, gun shows, gun
stores, competition shoots, has been all drained out by the hoplophobic
power trippers who think they know the score with all their obvious
vandalism to the common man with horse/common sense who has had it up to
here with "Nazi based" disarmament schemes of a bunch of rich wimps.

Bob

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