[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Slava

Just wondering how people here view the comments that many of the law enforcement agencies make regarding keeping the registry? I know that its long been derided as a white elephant and things like that, but when the experts who deal with this say its a very useful tool I just can't see why there is a rush to scrap it.

I'll stick with what our own Police Chief said.
I'm paraphrasing of course but the jist was, that the registry wasn't very useful for officers checking to see if there are guns in a home, becuase officers should be treating every home as if it has guns in it. The registry is a list of houses that MAY have guns in them, not a list of houses that don't.

If there is no certainty to it, then it really isn't that useful.