Technical problems have once again delayed the national firearms register, nine years after it was first proposed..."‘If the Home Office really is incapable, over a period of eight years, of computerising something as straightforward as a few hundred thousand firearms records, then it does suggest that they do not have a hope of making a success of the introduction of the national identity card scheme,"’ he said.Eight years?
For "a few hundred thousand" records?
How much information do they need to record?
Why do I suspect that this could have all been entered into an Access database by a few dozen clerks in a matter of weeks?
How much have they forked over to this Anite outfit to develop the software? And how are we doing on projected costs?
Maybe we've been approaching this all wrong. Maybe the safest place we could put our gun ownership information--to ensure it will never be discoverable or retrievable--is with the government.
Still, bummer this hampering their "national identity card scheme."
Tags: gun control, UK