Thread: Firearms Safety Authority: Firearms Data & Public Information

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

I register my vechiles,they can still be used in crimes,stolen,kill people or simply disappear. I register my dogs,they can still bite people,worry stock,be stolen never to be seen again or fall down a tomo never to be seen again. What makes you thing registering my guns will make YOU any safer than you are now???

It's not about logic or practicality, it is virtue signalling

There was a scene in Robocop where one of the execs talking about the ED209 or whatever the earlier model was says something like "Never mind whether it WORKED - we had spare parts for this thing for YEARS!"

The register is not there to do what it says it is there to do - the register is there to placate the worried libs who know fuck all about firearms and fear them

I transferred the last firearms I was holding back to their owners before we hit the road and I made the FSA put a note on my file that my rifles are not at our address but in our caravan while we travel so actually they have no clues where they are.

So about a quarter of the way through the five year period to register, about a quarter of firearms licence holders have registered their firearms. The math works so what am I missing?

Originally Posted by Rushy

So about a quarter of the way through the five year period to register, about a quarter of firearms licence holders have registered their firearms. The math works so what am I missing?

So… by year 4 all registrations should be done and dusted ?

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

So… by year 4 all registrations should be done and dusted ?

No. I paid attention during math. By the end of year four 80% should be done. Actually I really only went to school to eat my lunch but some of it stuck.

If it was a basic statistical modelling exercise that would work.

In this case, the model is altered and effected by several external factors such as license holders not renewing their licenses, new license holders, the randomness of triggering events, the fact that most renewals cluster around the 1991 introduction date of the 10 year licences and changes to the triggering event types all mean that there will be times when a lot of people are either going to register or are forced to and other times where there won't be so many.

I would think that there would be a bulge of registrations at around the time that ammo purchases become a triggering event, as an example.

I think there will be a HUGE rush to stockpile ammunition before that date to avoid it for a bit longer.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

I think there will be a HUGE rush to stockpile ammunition before that date to avoid it for a bit longer.

I agree with MD.
Personally I have made sure that I won't be caught by ammunition purchase becoming a triggering event.