Tim Dower: Is owning a gun a right or a privilege?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 22, 2023 · 2m

Hard to believe it's taken so long to get this new firearms register up and running.

Then again - it's a government IT project and we all know there's a well-established track record of these things going way past deadline and of course way over budget.

On top of that, it's likely to be clunky, overly complicated and not very well thought out so don't be at all surprised if it needs a multi-million dollar overhaul within the first couple of years.

And don't be surprised either if it has no impact on the rampant crime wave we're enduring.

Police themselves say there's been a marked increase of…