This is how I read it. Everyone upon reaching a certain age gets a number. For gods sake stop calling it a FOID card. A simple phone call with your number gets a yes or no response as to whether you can own a firearm. Your name would not be associated with the number at all. Things such as felony convictions, violent crimes, mental issues etc, get you moved to the "no" list. Much like the NCIS checks are today. In this case EVERYONE gets a number, whether you own guns or not. Even OBama and Feinstein get a number. There will never be any info added to the number as to the number or types of firearms owned.
Do I have this right?
On the surface this sounds ok. But who determines what kicks you in the "no" category. Who decides that besides the restrictions we already have, felons etc., that my 3 speeding tickets in the past month obviously make me a danger to society, so I should not be allowed to own firearms?
There is just too much potential for abuse from a left leaning government. Also without some sort of picture ID, whats to keep someone who has been moved to the "no" list from just spouting out a random set of numbers and hope that the number they just made up is able to purchase firearms? Without a picture ID how does the seller know the number you just gave them is actually yours? This moves us back into the national ID argument.
So, on the surface, once you move past the "FOID" name the idea sounds OK. But, if you really start to look at it a little deeper, it seems that there would be too many ways for abuse both by the government or by an individual to make the idea feasible.