Got this little tid bit on email.Not new information for most but timely with Monday a coming. Pass on the message to all your outdoor/gun pals, family, anyone really. Both the media and liberals/NDP are FUDing the crap with high noon fast approaching. As many have seen the polls indicate apprehension of a Conservative Majority/mandate. Once again it appears to be working and we all know what another minority government will mean!!!

>>> We didn't make this up
>>>
>>> Canada's two billion dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who
>>> spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.
>>>
>>> By comparison, Canada hired only 130 additional customs officers to
>>> protect our borders after Sept.11.
>>>
>>> Here are a few more eye-rolling facts about the gun registry, mostly
>>> unearthed by MP Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan.
>>>
>>> Internal audits show that government bureaucrats have a 71% error rate
>>> in licensing gun owners and a 91% error rate in registering the guns
>>> themselves.
>>>
>>> The government admits it registered 718,414 guns without serial numbers.
>>> That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them down, or the guns
>>> didn't have serial numbers in the first place. That's as useless as
>>> registering a vehicle simply as "a blue Ford Explorer."
>>>
>>> To these gun owners, the government has sent little stickers with
>>> made-up "serial numbers" on them, that gun owners are supposed to stick
>>> on their guns. And everybody at the gun registry is praying that
>>> criminals who steal those guns won't peel off the stickers.
>>>
>>> Some 222,911 guns were registered with the same make and serial number
>>> as other guns. That's not just useless -- it's dangerous..If someone
>>> else with a "Blue Ford Explorer" is involved in a hit and run, you'll
>>> be
>>> the one getting a knock on the door by the RCMP.
>>>
>>> Out of 4,114,624 gun registration certificates, 3,235,647 had blank or
>>> missing entries -- but the bureaucrats issued them anyways.
>>>
>>> In the beginning, the government's firearms licenses had photographs on
>>> them - just like driver's licenses do. But after hundreds of gun owners
>>> were sent licenses with someone else's photo on them, the government
>>> decided to scrap photos on the licenses altogether, rather than fix the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Private details about every gun owner in the country are put on one
>>> computer database, called CPIC. That's valuable information to a peeping
>>> tom -- or a criminal. The CPIC computer has been breached 221 times
>>> since the mid-1990s, according to the RCMP.
>>>
>>> In August of 2002, the gun registry sent a letter to Hulbert Orser,
>>> demanding he register his guns, and warning him that it's a crime not
>>> to.Orser died in 1981.
>>>
>>> Garth Rizzuto is not dead, but he's getting older -- he applied for a
>>> gun license 2 1/2 years ago.He hasn't been rejected. They're still
>>> "processing" his application.
>>>
>>> Some 304,375 people were allowed to register guns even though they
>>> didn't have a license permitting them to own a gun.
>>>
>>> On March 1 of 2002, bureaucrats registered Richard Buckley's soldering
>>> "gun" - that's right, a heat "gun" used for welding tin and lead. No
>>> word yet on Buckley's staple guns or glue guns.
>>>
>>> Some 15,381 gun owners were licensed with no indication of having taken
>>> the gun safety courses -- one of the main arguments for licensing.
>>>
>>> Despite the billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy, gun-owners must still pay
>>> $279 for the required licenses, registration, photo ID and other costs
>>> to register a single gun. That's as much as a gun costs in the first
>>> place. It's a tax -- a tax on rural Canada.
>>>
>>> The government spent $29 million on advertising for the gun registry --
>>> including $4.5 million to Group-Action, the Liberal ad firm now under
>>> RCMP investigation.
>>>
>>> But all of these follies are trivial compared to the central,
>>> unanswerable flaw in the gun registry: Since only law-abiding gun owners
>>> will register their guns, how can the registry stop criminals?
>>>
>>> If you think this is information all Canadians should have, forward it,
>>> ask your political representatives about these facts. You don't have to
>>> be a gun owner to have concerns on the questionable actions taken and
>>> situation we are in.
>>>
>>> Maybe there is a better way?
>>>