r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • May 23 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/doubleapplewcoconut May 26 '22

Yeah what the fuck? How do we not have good national data on this isn’t that the WHOLE POINT of maintaining the restricted registry?

If my S&W shows up in a crime do they not run the serial #? Either I’ve been robbed in which case it’s already reported, or I’m a criminal orchestrating straw purchases and an 8 year old could build an excel sheet against the handgun registry that figured in about two - three “scratched serial #” guns used in crime who in Canada “owns” could possibly own that set of restricteds and pay me a visit?

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u/Cingetorix Tacticool whore May 26 '22

This is something a student analyst could easily do at Public Safety but clearly they're not interested in the public, nor safety.