My presentation says I cannot and will not swear out a warrant based on the information contained in it. For me to obtain a search warrant, I have to swear before a judge or justice that I invariably believe the information contained in it to be true. If I include anything from the firearms registry, I can't swear out the warrant. That would be a false declaration.
I can't do that because I know of the errors. I know that in excess of a million guns and other firearms in Canada aren't in the registry. I know of the tens of thousands of firearms that are registered using patent and model numbers, and I know of the number of firearms in the registry that hold multiple registration certificates.
It's a database that, by all accounts from people within the registry, will take 70 years of attrition in order to be anywhere near accurate. I'm not going to swear before a judge, justice, or court that I believe information from it be true. I can't do that.