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12-12-2017, 11:52 #21
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12-12-2017, 12:22 #22
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Re: Re - Licensing for individuals: Who is against it?
Correct Kola, referring to the neverending processes of license renewals after the initial license was granted.
"Licensing" the person makes so much more sense in any event.
But trying to keep a system of continuous re-licensing going is akin to re-introducing the FCA at every 2 / 5 / 10 year cycle as far as administrative workload goes.
And now they want to make the periods for re-licensing cycles even shorter???
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12-12-2017, 12:24 #23
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12-12-2017, 12:27 #24
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Re: Re - Licensing for individuals: Who is against it?
At first that may seem obvious :), but I am interrested to hear some good arguments and also strive to create public awareness.
But now the thing is this: What is the position of the litigating parties on this issue at this point in time in the papers before the Constitutional Court for the hearing in February 2018?
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12-12-2017, 12:40 #25
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Re: Re - Licensing for individuals: Who is against it?
If the only actual reason can be that a very prudent state (ours is not one by any stretch of the imagination as far as their own corporate governance go and inability to look after themselves first of all) feels that it has the time and capacity and funds to do an audit on occasion / in cycles to see whose fireamrs may have been lost but not reported, then in another world we may not have been against such a process being thought out. But this would have been something much less than and also different to re-licensing in any event.
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12-12-2017, 12:44 #26
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Re: Re - Licensing for individuals: Who is against it?
An idea would be to follow the Norwegian example: I read in an article some years ago that the gun lobby dictates (at least helps in the process) who may/may not possess a firearm. Their tests were really strict. Maybe AKGunner can clarify this?
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12-12-2017, 12:49 #27
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12-12-2017, 12:54 #28
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Re: Re - Licensing for individuals: Who is against it?
Renewals of licenses should be abolished. It is irrational and serves no purpose other than to cost the taxpayer excessive funds for no benefit.
If a person becomes a violent criminal during the course of his or her life, that criminal may have their licences revoked through the courts - but which must follow a rigorous process and not simply a fiat. So the FCA does nothing to add to that system whatsoever.
Just do the maths. For example, the CFR receives 100 000 apps a year for SD and 250 000 per year for S16 for 25 years. It should handle 350 000 apps per year, right?
My maths is terrible and I have probably underestimated this, but I work out that the CFR will begin life as an organisation handling 350 000 per year, but by year 25 will be handling 1 250 000 apps per year if the numbers stay constant. The longer it exists, the heavier the burden becomes until it will be unable to cope, which it probably already is.
Added to that, I have not heard a single crime being solved or prevented by the existence of the CFR. Certainly Canada's Long Gun registry has been abandoned as simply being a waste of money. We based our system on theirs. No surprises therefore the the results will be the same.
The Minister must state how many crimes were prevented or solved thanks to the CFR. But the CFR must have been central to the prevention or solution to the crime, not that it was used to check.
Personally I find the entire FCA and the registry deeply offensive, but it is what it is and even on its own self-appointed merits, its a complete failure.
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12-12-2017, 12:56 #29
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12-12-2017, 12:59 #30
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