Registration

I have a question for you all...at the same time though, I think that I already know your answers. So I ask of you to please bare with me, because I'm about to, 'split a hair'.

Does any one of you support firearms registration? (of any kind). Having said that, I'm having trouble trying to expand on this question, so I will leave it at that. In addition, I do not mean to offend, but I'm fairly confident that most answers to this question will surprise.

I hereby look forward to your many answers, and after that, I will let the 'Cat out of the Bag'.

Thank you all in advance, and God Bless.

 

Shall not be infringed. End of story.

 

What are the benefits to me of registering my firearm? I don't see any.

 

Nope. Registration leads to one of two things: Taxation or confiscation.

For example, we register our cars because we pay taxes that pay for our roads. Firearms are taxed at point of sale, so what is the actual point of registration?

 

Of course not. There is a 2A organization based out of WA state that took the position that registration was a 'reasonable compromise' after SH. This is stupidity. The agenda of the antis is to disarm the American citizenry . . period. Registration is for their objectives.

I used to support that WA state organization. I no longer do so.

Doesn't matter if they flipped to another position. At minimum, I no longer trust their capacity for reasoning.

 

I support registration of all firearms possessed by our civil servants. Once the police abide by this common sense gun law we will all be safer.

 

Registration only tells those who want it where the good guy's guns are. Criminals don't/won't register their guns. So, what's the point except to tell the .gov where to go to confiscate them?

 

I don't send in warranty cards if that's what you mean.

As far as government registration, when it comes to firearms the only regulation I favor 100% is the regulation of double barrel guns (so both barrels hit where they should). I certainly don't favor regulations requiring firearm registration.

 

Regulating objects, including pretending to know who has them or where they are, has historically been demonstrated to be a fools errand.

 

No. No nation, in the history of the world, has enacted weapons registration and not had it lead to further restriction at the very least. Eventually it has led to confiscation. It's as consistent as gravity.

 

I heard a representative from JPFO on Gun Talk Last week - had to dig up a link to the interesting discussion / history lesson and found it here.

Let me read a little bit and get back to ya on that question!

 

NO!

 

No.

And let me expand on this.

I see that we are pretty much on the same page for non registration of guns.
Any outcry when you have to register to vote?

I can guarantee more votes are stolen than guns.

 

The only reason to register guns is to establish a list for confiscation. Therefore I am 100% opposed to any scheme of registration. Like others here I do not even send in firearms warrantee cards.

 

NO!!! I repeat...NO!!!

 

Nope

 

. Registration and universal background checks would show when a gun moves from the legal world to the black market and help prosecute those people that provide guns into the black market and the hands of criminals. So yes, I support registration and universal background checks. The very real benefits to law enforcement outweigh the tiny risk of confiscation.

 

The first intelligent answer.

 

I would say the risk is more than tiny, just because there is not the political will to do it now says nothing about the future. That being said I do think there are benefits and both help keep guns out of the hands of people that can't pass a background check, but our government just cannot be trusted to only use it for that.

I do believe we would have a hard time proving that registration is infringement if the issue ever got anywhere in the courts. It does not actually prevent anyone from owning anything by itself. Its therefore extremely important for us to fight the proposals before it ever becomes law.

 

Charming.

Except it is based on several faulty assumptions.

First, that the black market is necessarily stocked by people who buy guns legally and sell them. As the drug war has demonstrated, that's absurd. Guns are easy to build and if there is a sufficient market someone will manufacture goods for that market.

Second, it ignores the fact that the existence of a black market is a sign that the regulatory approach has failed. Prohibition does not work.

Third, it ignores harm and cost.

It won't do what is claimed, any more than drug prohibition does, it will aid only in trying to react to the damage done by other regulation instead of reevaluating the cause of the problem, and it will cost a lot. You call that intelligent?