You can't think why the Police Chiefs would be for the registry, John? Perhaps it escaped your attention that CGI, the consultant company that built and now maintains the registry, "donated" over $100,000 to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. The organisation that Toronto PD head Chief Blair is the chair of. The organisation who had their own ethics advisor resign over similar payments from Taser International. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, there is a conflict of interest here?

The registry is not a useful tool for frontline police, nor is it an efficient way to combat crime. I would like to direct readers of this article to a paper written by Dr.Gary Mauser of Simon Fraser University on a MUCH more effective and efficient method of controlling gun crime at the source: a CRIMINAL registry. It's only three pages, and is definitely worth the read for interested parties: http://www.garymauser.net/pdf/May06ffMauser.pdf