Why is registering guns bad

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Thread starter kazaam Start date Jul 22, Tags registration. Jun 2, I see some states have it and some do not, but most people here vehemently disagree with it.

I'm being genuine here; I'm new to guns so I'm genuinely curious. Mackey Master. Nov 4, 3, 48 interwebs. I see registration as a first step towards gun banning. The state will simple be keeping count of who has what for when the anti-gunners hope the day comes when guns are outlawed. HeadlessRoland Shooter. Aug 8, 3, 63 In the dark. Jun 18, 19, 63 Hamilton County. Registration is, as history shows, the first step towards confiscation. If they know who has what and where it is, that makes officer friendly's job that much easier.

No thanks. Archer Shooter. Jul 21, 16 South East of Indy. I don't agree with it because I feel there is no need for anyone in the government to know how many or what type of firearms I own.

I also don't post a list or pictures of what I own for this reason. My immune system has already made me immune e to that crap, but the government still wants to force me to get the vaccine, why? Shove your control up your ass, sideways. Yes we all know about automobile registration,paying vehicle sales tax,along with buying the tag when you purchase a vehicle.

But when someone says something about that you must register the vehicle to pay for the use,repair,and upkeep of the roads my blood boils. What do you think you pay tax at the gas pump for?

What do you think you pay state income tax for? What do you think you pay federal income tax for? Good God man we are drowning in taxes. We are being taxed to the point all the interstates in America should be paved with gold. Believe it or not a few years down the road it was recovered some miles away in Baton Rouge. It was a 2nd gen Colt SAA. Fortunately HE kept a list of all his guns with SNs. Haynes v.

Supreme Court of the United States Why are law abiding citizens required to do so? Registration precedes confiscation. The 2nd Amendment is as are the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights written to protect us from an overbearing government. Do away with the Spirit and Letter of the 2nd Amendment and government controls the citizens.

The government HAS digitized the records,violating the law. My late sister in law was doing it years ago at ATF headquarters. So has Pennsylvania. I will give you a better reason to not register firearms. If you register the weapon and or the owner, it is so much easier for a tyrant to just move to confiscate them. Just take a look at all the deep state abuses that have been uncovered lately, need i say more?

Well, Dianne, you stupid politician, you are not required to register a car to own it or even operate it. The cockamamie suggestion of an assault weapons registry is back in the public conversation.

Meeting Tuesday in Tallahassee , a panel of Florida economists weighed the burden of a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to ban assault weapons — but grandfather in the guns already circulating, as long as their owners register them with the state. Lists of whom? Lists of law-abiding citizens. Only the grudging good guys do. Unsurprisingly, the panel meeting Tuesday hardly sounded as if it were clearing the proposed amendment for takeoff:. Those are administrative details.

But there are philosophical problems that make this constitutional amendment particularly offensive to me. My husband and I never owned a gun and neither did any of our kids.

By all accounts, of all the powerful memories and emotions the Founding Fathers brought to the constitutional debates, none was stronger than their fear of standing armies. They already had a handgun registry. They estimated there were about 8 million long guns in private hands.

The law passed in , with licensing starting in and all long guns were to be registered by Jan. By , it was obviously not going according to theory. Registrations were backlogged and riddled with errors, and costs were way over estimates.

Gun registries are sinister. They are about a loss of privacy, about a fear of freedom, but most of all, they are about confiscation. If registries have prevented a single homicide, let alone a mass murder, somebody will have to show me. One last point: There is no such thing as cyber security. Consider that even the NSA has been hacked. So imagine for a minute all gun owners registering every weapon they own to their name and address.

Now imagine some criminal hacking that registry and building an Uber-style app showing where each gun is located, what kind it is, and who lives in the house. Create a gun registry of any type and risk creating a cottage industry for felons to raid. Two days ago BAWN had turned in a total of , valid signatures. Nancy Smith is the editor of Sunshine State News. Lucie News as managing editor and associate editor. She was president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in the mids.

Reach her by email here , or follow her on twitter at NancyLBSmith. Happy to see FlaglerLive publishing this view, in light of recent local and national articles and commentaries, mostly well-meaning but missing the point. Smith hits the nail on the head.

More attention needs to be focused on our mental health issues, a breakdown of family oversight and responsibilities, a nation and media infatuated with each new atrocity, and the impact on broken people of having their 15 days of fame guaranteed if they just copy the last evil or sick murderer.

The state police could limit its record keeping to the fact that a background check was done on a specific firearm at a specific dealer, without any reference to the identity of the transferee. Let us keep in mind, then, that the PICS background check in theory at least simply ensures that a transferee is not a Prohibited Person, and, with some exceptions, nearly all firearms both NFA and non-NFA are subject to background checks.

Registration , on the other hand, while required for the transfer of NFA Firearms, is not officially permitted in Pennsylvania. May we be precise in our terminology, and zealous to keep these terms distinct, both in theory and in practice, remembering that background checks are intended to keep guns out of the hands of the bad guys, whereas registration may eventually keep them out of the hands of the good guys. Josh Bodene, Esq.