The D.C. Council will soon vote on a new law that would eliminate several obstacles for gun buyers -- a five-hour training course, ballistics testing, a vision test, and a ban on certain types of ammunition. But they will leave unchanged the registration requirement for gun owners. D.C. could learn a lot from Canada's decision to finally rescind its gun registry in February.Beginning in 1998, Canadians spent a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a registry for long guns -- in the U.S., the same amount per gun owner would come to $67 billion. For all that money, the registry was never credited with solving a single murder. Instead, it became an enormous waste of police officers' time, diverting their efforts from traditional policing activities. . . .
Some relevant links are here:
D.C. Council panel agrees to discard some gun rules
Fox Can't Keep Story Straight On D.C. Gun Laws
As far as you know, do your findings also apply to Michigan? Handgun registration in our state is an intrusive headache, and IMO a waste of time, but I'm wondering if there's evidence of its uselessness in solving crimes. I'd sure like to see it repealed.
ReplyDeleteTYF; Give this a try...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,4643,7-123-1591_3503_4654-77621--,00.html
This is the MSP's CCW reports web page.