Canadian Firearms Program Statistics updated: Dec 11, 2004

Canadian Firearms Program Statistics
http://www.cfc-ccaf.gc.ca/media/program_statistics/monthlystats_e.asp

Licences
Almost 2 Million Firearms Licences (POLs and PALs) issued under the
current legislation are valid.
1.27 Million Possession Only Licences (POLs) issued under the current
legislation are valid.
714,000 Possession and Acquisition Licences (PALs) issued under the
current legislation are valid.
5,400 Minor’s Licences (MLs) issued under current legislation are valid.
66 Firearms Acquisition Certificates (FACs) under the previous
legislation are still valid.

Registration
1.6 Million firearm owners have at least one registration certificate in
the Canadian Firearms Information System (CFIS).
Almost 7 Million firearms have been registered.

Canadian Firearms Registration On-Line (CFRO)
3.5 Million CFRO queries have been made by police and other law
enforcement officials since December 1, 1998.

Note: Police and law enforcement officials have controlled access to
some firearms data via Canadian Firearms Registration On-Line, which
contains a subset of the information in the computerized Canadian
Firearms Information System. CFRO does not contain data on firearm
owners other than basic information such as firearms licence numbers,
home addresses etc. For further information on CFRO please go to
http://cfc-cafc.gc.ca/en/portals/police/cfro/default.asp.

Statistics last updated on: December 11, 2004

These statistics are provided by the Office of the Chief Operating
Officer of the Canada Firearms Centre. Some statistics are tabulated
weekly and some are tabulated monthly.

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NEWS RELEASE – August 24, 2004
FIREARMS CENTRE ADMITS TO MASSIVE NON-COMPLIANCE AND INCOMPETENCE
“It is simply not credible for the Liberals to claim that their
billion-dollar registry is of any value whatsoever to police when it is
missing so many guns.”
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/guns127.htm