The biggest concern I have with this, is it won't occur quickly. I am guessing it will take about 6-12 months for the first gang bangers/organized crime members to get charged. Once those first couple of charges hit the system, it will open slowly then rather quickly. Lets face it, cops get paid good money. the reality is there isn't enough of them because of that.....policing is bloody expensive on tax payers.....I get it! that said, you the "public" wanted higher educated/university trained cops. that costs money....so with that said, if there aren't enough cops out there, the RCMP/Provincial cops/municipal cops DONT HAVE ENOUGH TIME to go after every owner listed on sales orders/records/registrations from the CFO's sales books and CFRO. The low hanging fruit is the "registered" suckers - yes i am one of them. Then someone has to go through ALL of the sales books and start compiling contact lists to reach out to the owners....then they have to investigate when the owners says, sorry sold it and cont remember who I sold it too (that's going to be another issue alone!!). All the while, the number 1 priorities will be required to be looked after.
In the region I was working in, for years the NO1 priority of public opinion was traffic! When I had to do officer annual performance reviews, an officer could have the highest number of arrests and criminal charges but have the lowest number (or even the lowest third on the platoon) of traffic tickets....guess what? I was DIRECTED to tell them to improve their traffic enforcement!
So front line won't be doing it regularly. It'll start with specialized units - intelligence/traditional organized crime/guns and gangs/PWUE/NWEST....and it'll likely occur AFTER they arrest a bad guy and found that he had a PAL and seized shotguns, and then...."hey, he has 2-4 shotguns, lets get them analyzed", the analyst knowing it is belonging to a potential gun charge will lay it all out....VERY MATTER OF FACTLY....then the lead investigator will definitely say - lets do it, see if it sticks when we throw it against the wall......there isn't case law yet. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN! The it will slowly disseminate from there.
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