(Police Chief Bill Reid)
(File Photo)
The Saint John Police Commission is coming out in support of keeping the long gun registry. Chief Bill Reid says police officers don't want to be taken by surprise when they're called to a domestic dispute for instance........They want to know if there is a weapon at hand before responding.
Reid says in 2008 alone, the registry was used 130 thousand times in just this province. The Chief and the Police Commission will have more to say about this on September 15th which has been chosen as a day to show support for the gun registry.
Reid says he plans to make his views known to Saint John M-P Rodney Weston before then. Weston is a member of the Harper Government which has long wanted to scrap the gun registry which costs 4 million dollars a year to operate.
