07-06-2015, 11:18 AM
(07-06-2015, 10:01 AM)Duchess Wrote: I had a gun conversation last night. It began with me saying "were you aware that guns don't have to be registered". He looked at me like I had snakes coming out of my head.
If guns change hands legally then there is a record of it. I do understand now that to register them would be redundant given all the necessary info has already been obtained BUT guns changing hands often isn't done legally particularly when they are sold to friends, family, etc. Money is exchanged and that's about it.
A national gun registry is not something that's being pursued, though apparently much of the population believes that one should or already exists.
The government has gone so far as to make it clear that it's not looking to establish a federal gun registry by enacting a law, back in the 1980s, expressly prohibiting one (The Firearms Owners Protection Act).
The only reason a federal registry comes up so often in gun control discussions and debates is because some gun enthusiasts claim that any proposed legislation to better regulate guns in this country is a "slippery slope" that puts the government one step closer to achieving its secret goal of establishing a federal gun registry for the purpose of disarming them. Fear.