Thread: Feeling sick after reading this !

Haven't read the article, paywall etc etc.

But the comment about a registry stopping straw buying is pure wishful thinking, there is zero mechanism or even enough manpower to review the firearms licence holders to actually ensure what is registered is actually there. And at the 5yr mark for first renewal or the 10yr mark for subsequent renewals it's just too damn late and few and far between the 240,000 reviews to mean a damn. What it will mean is that the straw buyer thing becomes a case of either the person the gangs are making get the licence knows that they are up for a headbutt and the cost of that is priced into the gang's reimbursement for services rendered or there will be a trend of robberies at the 4.5 year or the 9.5 year mark. That and a quick whip over with a stolen angle grinder removing the numbers and bob's your gender-not-specified relative of questionable origins. Still of the opinion that if the point of the exercise was better regime control that opportunity has already been lost by not putting all semi's onto E-cat instead of doing a confiscation which arguably only recovered a percentage of the fleet. The remainder will not come back out of the ether with these sorts of mad schemes at foot.