The registry is already experiencing technical difficulties

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Catherine Montambeault

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:41

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Online for just two days, the new Service, the registration of firearms is already experiencing significant technical difficulties.

It was impossible Tuesday to identify themselves to save on the internet a firearm by entering their licence number firearms licence (PAL). When attempting to do so, an error message appears on the screen, indicating that ” the identification by the PPA is blocked for 24 hours “.

“The problem is the same since yesterday [Monday]. There are too many applications, the system we released, ” said the Newspaper, an officer in the call centre dedicated to the new registry.

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An error message appeared Tuesday on the website of the Department of registration of firearms when attempting to enter their licence number firearms licence (PAL). “The identification by the PPA is blocked for 24 hours “, could be read.

Since Monday, the firearms owners in quebec have a year to register their long guns free of charge on the website of the Service registration of firearms (FAIS).

To do this, they must first validate their identity by providing their APP, the number that appears on their birth certificate or a scanned copy of a valid identity document.

These last two options seemed to work only in some cases Tuesday. “You can try it, but it may be that it doesn’t work no more, said the operator. Our technicians are working on it. “

The only remaining option was to print the paper form available online and send it by mail. The department of public Safety did not respond to multiple calls and emails to the Journal on Tuesday.

“Not ready “

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Guy Morin
Against the registry of firearms

For Guy Morin, president of the collective for a registry quebec firearms, these problems demonstrate that the system was not prepared as well as the claimed the minister of public Safety, Martin Coiteux.

“I find it very funny, lance-t-il. It proves that the registry was not ready and that the government has put in function on the day of the anniversary of the bombing at the mosque of Québec just for it to pass unnoticed, just so that the minister and his gang may not be available to answer questions. “

Surprising

Mr. Morin also encourages the owners of firearms not to save them.

“The more he will have [people] who are going to register their weapons, the more it will give strength to the law,” he says.

The activist for the control of firearms Manon Monastesse said that it is normal that some bugs can appear when a computer system is launched.

“But it surprises me a lot, because the people in the department we were told that they had tested the system several times,” says the ceo of the Federation of shelters for women.

♦ The development of the FAIS and taking inventory of weapons in the course of the next year are expected to cost approximately $ 20 million, said Mr. Coiteux Sunday.