Vehicle registration only happens once

RE:Registry won't do any good


A lot of people have used the fact that we must register and pay yearly for the ‘privilege’ of owning a car, and why not use the same logic with guns.

Vehicle registration only happens once. I do not pay for any yearly fees to own the vehicle. I don’t even need a driver’s license to own the car, just as I don’t need a car to have a driver’s license.

Now if I want to DRIVE the car on the public roads, I must also have some minimum insurance coverage, and part of that requires a plate license fee, and for that we do pay yearly.

If I choose to let my driver’s license lapse, I am not visited by officers who want to impound and destroy my car. If I have a rifle, and a firearms license, and it lapses, I WILL get that visit, and they will seize my property and potentially destroy it without reimbursing me for my loss. I’m not sure but I’m fairly convinced that if I got a firearms license, and didn’t register a weapon, that I may get the same visit by the cops, to see if I have a “illegal” weapon.

After all, it is for the public safety!

The gun registry has blown through $2 billion and looks to cost us even more in the future, and yet there has been no major drop in homicides in Canada due to the law. It didn’t prevent Kimveer Gill from using his legally obtained and registered weapons to kill one person and wound nineteen others at Dawson College. It didn’t prevent four RCMP officers from being killed in Mayerthorpe, AB, and it won’t turn Canada into a killing field if we dump the registry.

What other liberties are you willing to surrender in order to feel safer? Note that feeling safer, is not the same as actually being safe.


Bill Grigg