“The
Auditor General’s financial audit will be a huge step in exposing this
mess.”
Yorkton
– Today,
Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic on Firearms and Property Rights,
issued his fourth error report on the government’s problem-plagued gun
registry. “After seven years and
a billion-dollar blunder,” Breitkreuz asks, “I wonder how much longer can
the Liberals keep claiming the gun registry is a huge success?”
“Maybe the Auditor General will finally be able to get the government
to face reality when she reports to Parliament in November.”
Here
are the headlines from Breitkreuz’s fourth error report:
1.
Justice Department document shows 304,375 owners of registered weapons
don’t have a valid firearms
2.
RCMP confirms 49,000 registered firearms in B.C. with unlicenced owners.
3.
RCMP report 409 guns lost and stolen from Dept. of Defence listed on CPIC.
4.
222,911 firearms registered with the same make and serial number.
5.
RCMP report 718,414 firearms registered without serial numbers.
6.
“Ghost guns” will be an even bigger problem in the new Canadian
Firearms Registry.
7.
RCMP re-register Ruger handgun as “non-restricted” firearm.
8.
Canadian Firearms Centre re-registers a handgun with the wrong serial
number despite being advised in
9.
RCMP transfer prohibited handguns into dealer’s inventory even though
his dealer’s licence doesn’t permit
10.
RCMP sent Ontario gun owner’s private and personal documents to a gun
owner in Winnipeg:
11.
Ontario hunter lists registration errors and writes, “it’s
hard to believe that in an $800 million system there
can be so much stupidity.”
12.
After 157 phone calls and 21 months the Dept. of Justice says they are
still processing his firearms licence.
13.
Writing a Letter to the Editor speeds up processing of firearms licences.
14.
The Justice Dept. has issued hundreds of firearms licences with the wrong
photo – now they issue one
without a photo.
15.
How many guns are registered? It
depends on whether you ask the RCMP or the Dept. of Justice.
16.
Justice Department claims they haven’t registered their firearms but
gun owners beg to differ.
Click here for Breitkreuz’s full report and links to previous error reports.
“As
long as the government keeps making errors, we’ll keep reporting them,”
promised Breitkreuz. “When the
Liberals put their political priorities ahead of public safety and police
priorities everyone is hurt. A
billion dollars has already been wasted – a billion dollars that could have
put thousands more officers on our streets, on our highways and at our ports and
borders. Hopefully, they’ll wake
up before they waste the second billion. The
huge error rate in the system makes it useless an extremely expensive garbage
collection system,” concluded Breitkreuz.
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