Thread: This question again

Why do they want to record your serial numbers?
Has it come back in that this is now put down on a national data base?
I thought that this went out an age ago around 1985/7 when the life time licences came in before that was changed to the ten year one after the Aramoana tragedy. The reason given by the police at the time was that there data was in such a mess that it was no longer fit for purpose.
They still record them here in the UK. It has it's pros and cons.
To now try and go back and start up this data base would not in my option be very cost affective.
Judging from some of the posts on here about how long it takes for you to get your FAC. I think that the police have better things to do.
As a side note here in the UK your make caliber serial number of every firearm is recorded on your paper FAC and shotgun cert.
This is a big problem because if you lose it and it falls into the wrong hands they know where you live and what you have.
How's that for a security breach!!!!!!