"Michael Daly" wrote in message
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On 9-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

What, precisely, is its purpose?

The purpose of gun registration is to allow politicians to pretend
that they are doing something useful and to allow many people to
get a false sense of security that something is being done to
protect them. Unfortunately, registration does nothing to prevent
the spread of illegal guns.

Mike

I don't understand how the registry ever got understood as some sort of
superhero that would dive in front of bullets.

It's just a list that matches names with numbers. It is not useless, it just
has a much more limited purpose than is commonly discussed, and there's no
way maintaining a list has to cost so much. They should have given the
contract to the private company that does the vehicle licensing in Ontario.