On 10/31/2014 1:19 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:24:23 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

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.



The "permission by the wife" cracks me up.

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Yes but unfortunately it actually happened, at least for a while.



I used to get a kick out of the guys who bought guitars but had to
either justify another one to the wife or somehow sneak it in. Wives
have an uncanny ability to be around watching you at the worst possible
times.

My buddy and I jokingly provided "consultation" services for this.
Our best advice was to leave the house carrying an empty guitar case
from another guitar known to her from their guitar "arsenal". Tell the
wife you are going to a gig with friends or are bringing it in for a set
up at the shop.

Put the new guitar in the old case and go home. Pick up the case for
the new one sometime when you are sure she's not going to be around.