A one-stop e-shop for gun thieves

[Colpy]

From a column by Lorne Gunther in today's National Post.

.....John Hicks, former webmaster for the Canadian Firearms Centre (CPC).......contends that anyone with a home computer, an internet connection and a little patience can hack into the national firearms database and find out who owns guns, where they live and what makes and models they possess.

........the CPC counters that its computers are as secure as the RCMP's.

......(the RCMP's) most recent numbers show there were 306 illegal breaches of the national police database between 1995 and 2003, 121 iof which are unsolved at last report.

.....Since last fall, there have been half a dozen high-profile gun thefts from shops and collectors' homes in southern Ontario, and unconfirmed reports of nearly 20 more in and around Edmonton.

........Ottawa has already spent or announced spending of $527 million on firearms computers.....

......In December last year, Team Centra was ready to test run its elaborate new system.......After one day (the techs) were sent home because the application crashed over 90 times with over 30 Severity-1 crashes.

.....Rather than making Canada safer by letting police know where most of the guns are, the registry may be making the country more dangerous by letting the criminals know instead. Your tax dollars at work.

And we are about to find out the systen cost almost TWO billion dollars in total.

Dump it.

 

[Jay]

And jail the people who dreamed up this huge intrusion into privacy and wasted all that wonderful money that could have been spent on homelessness..... Those inventors of stupid gun registries; they don't want to help homeless people.....for where will the plea for more money to combat that which isn't there be? Gone! The left would fall off the face of the earth if these problems were actually solved.