NEWS RELEASE

NOW MORE THAN 5.6 MILLION “UNVERIFIED” GUNS IN THE REGISTRY
“Documents show Anne McLellan uses phantom police queries to make registry seem worth $2 billion.”

Yorkton – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, MP for Yorkton-Melville, released documents showing that the number of “unverified” firearms in the gun registry has increased from 5.1 million to 5.6 million over the last two and a half years (see details in link below). “The more millions they waste the further they fall behind,” complained Breitkreuz. “So much for the Police Association’s resolutions in 1999 demanding the data entered in the gun registry be verified as accurate.”

Breitkreuz also released an exchange of e-mails showing that many of the police queries the Liberals have bragged about since 1999, are in fact, “automatic hits” - computer queries counted whenever an unknown number of police forces make a routine address query to CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre) computers (see details in link below). “No wonder Anne McLellan has to use thousands of ‘automatic’ police queries to mislead everyone. Why would the police query or trust a system when 80% of the guns aren’t accurately identified?” asked Breitkreuz.

“I met with an RCMP officer this week who was told by his superiors to stop sending requests to the gun registry before attending domestic disputes because he ‘was putting his life in danger’. The RCMP officer was told the usual ‘no guns’ response to his query ‘creates a false sense of security’. The young officer was also told that if he ever criticized the gun registry publicly his career would be over,” reported Breitkreuz. “That’s no way to run a police force.”

“Stephen Harper was right when he labelled the Prime Minister’s handgun ban as a ‘phantom policy’ based on Finance Minister Ralph Goodale’s assessment that it would likely never be implemented by the Province of Saskatchewan. Now we learn that the Liberals have been reporting phantom police queries. It’s time to scrap the registry and redirect those millions into front-line policing and border patrols. That’s just what a Conservative government will do,” promised Breitkreuz.

5,688,766 “UNVERIFIED” FIREARMS IN GUN REGISTRY
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2005_new/42.htm

POLICE USE OF THE GUN REGISTRY WILDLY EXAGGERATED BY LIBERALS!
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2005_new/41.htm

HAVE THE DEMANDS OF FRONT-LINE POLICE OFFICERS BEEN MET?
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2005_new/26.htm

GUN REGISTRY NOT EFFECTIVE AT TELLING POLICE WHERE THE GUNS ARE
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/feb-18-2005.htm

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