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Re: "FEDS BALK AT RECALLING GUN APPLICATIONS"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Thu Jan 7 15:26:59 1999
From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Axworthy Lloyd L. the Hon. Foreign Affairs Minister" <Axworthy.L@parl.gc.ca>,
"Private Liberty List" <jf_avon@citenet.net>,
"Canadian Firearm Digest" <cdn-firearms-digest@broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>,
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"Patry Bernard depute Dollars-Pierrefonds" <Patry.B@parl.gc.ca>,
"Breitkreuz Hon. Gary MP" <Breitkreuz.G@parl.gc.ca>,
"Hon Anne McLellan mp Minister of Justice" <McLellan.A@parl.gc.ca>,
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:33:42 -0500
Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
Dear Ministers and member of the Canadian Government, member of the CFC,
members of the Ministry of Justice, and all interested.
In the following source, I found the follwing data:
============== quoted source text ====================
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:02:27 -0500, Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1 wrote:
>
>PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Journal
>DATE: 99.01.07
>EDITION: Final
>SECTION: Canada
>PAGE: A7
>BYLINE: Don Thomas, Journal Staff Writer
>SOURCE: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
>DATELINE: Edmonton
>
>Feds balk at recalling <gun> applications
[snip]
>"It is regrettable. But we caught it, we've determined it is easily
>manageable and we'll catch it on the re-print of the form. Everything else
>we've published is accurate, correct and complete," he said.
>About 1,800 people have applied for the licences.
[snip]
=============== end of quoted source =================
This article, while covering a different topic, contains an absolute gem in
the form of a very interesting figure: "About 1,800 people have applied for
the licences"
1800 registering peoples/month / 7,000,000 gunowners / = ...
... =0.000257% of gunowners per month
Let's multiply this by 12 for the value for a year
0.000257 x 12 = 0.0031 = 0.31% of gunowners / year.
At this rate, the 100% of 7,000,000 million gunowners will have registered in:
1 year / 0.31% = 324.3 years.
OK, OK, Annie-Get-My-Gun doesn't agree with our figure!
Fine! Divide it by seven, you'll get the number of years it takes per million
of owners.
At that rate, it will take 46.3 years PER MILLION OWNERS...
And this is in the context that:
- as part of theses peoples, there are many who probably got their licence
because their old FAC was expired and wanted to buy a NEW firearm (probably a
chrismas gift from their loving wife)...
- as an incentive, you offered "rebates" on the price of the paperwork...
- most of the one who are neither poor (i.e. who _must_ do so because of the
rebate) nor in need of the documents (i.e. for purchasing a NEW firearm while
not holding a valid FAC) are absolutely naive and clueless... But they won't
remain so for long...
You need to interpret numbers, crunch data? Hire a physicist!
:-)
Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics (U. de Sherbrooke'89), Montreal, Canada
JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers
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