Registration and then Confiscation

[Jamers99]

OK, so are our guns registered to us when we purchase them or not? When I by a gun from the local gun store can't the police ultimately trace it back to me if they want? At least all the movies and "who done it" shows imply that the police can always look up what guns you own. Those towns in NY recently had their local paper put a map of gun owners overlaid on a google map. Supposedly the newpaper got the info from the county clerk. Was that just people with carry permits? So is registration already inherent in the system?

We all know that historically registration leads to confiscation.

 

[Moonman]

Guns purchased prior to the 1968 gun law have no paperwork, just shipping orders at the manufacturers to dealers usually, none after.

Anyone could even mail order and receive firearms shipped to THEM AT HOME.

Many firearms presently change hands privately.

Anyone whose been around college towns or the Mexican border knows that false I.D.'s can be obtained, these could be used to try to purchase firearms.

Crooks usually would not go to that much effort, they'd do a break-in or robbery to obtain.

 

[Stophel]

Of course it is a registration. It is foolish to think otherwise.

 

[PeterCartwright]

Yes, but the current system has no national database...at least I don't think so. There is a traceable paper trail, if authorities have a need to seek it. Hard copy records of a transaction are retained by every FFL. The difference in proposals coming from Washington is that an active, national database will seek to provide a record of all firearms...at least those in the "evil" category. THIS is the scariest thing to date.

PC

 

[ladder13]

Those towns in NY recently had their local paper put a map of gun owners overlaid on a google map. Supposedly the newpaper got the info from the county clerk. Was that just people with carry permits?.

Those were people with carry permits, not long guns which are not registered. In addition, the list was somewhat "incomplete", as I have friends who live in the "mapped" area who were not listed. Yes, there is handgun registration already in NY.

 

[Jamers99]

I just recalled a seen in the original Red Dawn movie where the Communist General sent one of his soldiers to the local Sporting Goods (or Gun Shop) to retrieve the records of the town folk who purchased guns. Then they rounded them all up and put them in concentration camps and later had them executed. But that was only a movie, right?

 

[Jetpilot007]

Lady liberty is shedding tears