When Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation last week
to reinstate the assault weapons ban, the veteran California
Democrat also
proposed a national gun registry. The registry would apply to
all legally owned weapons grandfathered prior to the assault
weapons ban taking effect.
Canadians are all too familiar with gun registries. In 1995, the Liberal government of Jean ChrĂ©tien passed the Firearms Act which established the Canadian Firearms Registry. It was a white elephant plagued by cost overruns in the hundreds of millions of dollars and was the target of frequent criticism by Sheila Fraser, Canada’s former Auditor General. Noted conservative Canadian journalist Peter Worthington wrote, “Gun registry is little but an expensive, unnecessary, largely useless waste of time. Bureaucratic boondoggle aptly describes the program.”
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/30/feinsteins-folly
Canadians are all too familiar with gun registries. In 1995, the Liberal government of Jean ChrĂ©tien passed the Firearms Act which established the Canadian Firearms Registry. It was a white elephant plagued by cost overruns in the hundreds of millions of dollars and was the target of frequent criticism by Sheila Fraser, Canada’s former Auditor General. Noted conservative Canadian journalist Peter Worthington wrote, “Gun registry is little but an expensive, unnecessary, largely useless waste of time. Bureaucratic boondoggle aptly describes the program.”
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/30/feinsteins-folly
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