Reply to post: Re: Database?

UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system

Anonymous Coward
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Re: Database?

Lets just say hypothetically that you told everybody who owned what, and what their address was.

In doing so, you would create a situation where you could look at whom owns a gunpowder era muzzle loading musket (widely used for re-enactment, as well as niche clay pigeon shooting) as anybody with a musket loaded with loose gunpowder will legally own and store several kilograms of gunpowder for firing them.

Do you not feel that names and addresses for people who own commercial off the shelf explosives might not be quite useful information for terrorists who can't figure out how to brew their own?

You are of course entitled to your view that "it should not matter" giving everybody this information. I'm entitled to hold different view; that giving everybody this information is criminally stupid in both the literal and metaphorical sense.

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