On Friday, 31 October 2014 12:54:33 UTC-3, wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:27:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


No matter. My firearms are registered with the state. According to
some here I should be expecting the police to come knocking on my door
any day now to confiscate them.


More likely is they would just start taxing you on them. It won't take
long before someone points out how much maintaining all of those
records costs the tax payer and they will want you to pay for it.

I still have not heard of a single crime that was prevented by having
some of the guns registered.

The way they presented here was that it was a safety thing for police.
If they were called to your house, they could quickly check the registry to see if and what kind of firearms you had.
It was supposed to cost $50.00 for five years, no matter how many guns.
Then they made a time limited offer of dropping the price to $10.00 for the five years to draw people in. Note: there were supposed to be serious penalties for anyone caught with an unregistered firearm.
When the 5 years were up they offered free renewals but we had to get our wives to sign a form saying it was ok for us to have firearms in the house.
The current conservative government killed that law. I guess the prudent thing would be to buy up shotguns etc now before a liberal government gets back in and re-instates the law.
BTW we still do have to have a permit to buy guns.