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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
I say each gun should be registered like a vehicle through the DMV and I'd make it a felony to own an unregistered gun. Some gun nuts may see this as stepping on their rights, but I don't see the big deal.
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The big deal is that there is a fairly large and politically powerful group of people in this country who want to ban/confiscate all guns. Gun registration makes it much much easier for the government to go around to all the known gun owners and round up the guns once they're banned. This has already happened in the UK and Australia.
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You go to the DMV to register your new vehicle and you don't complain (at least not too much) - I don't see why guns should get any special treatment.
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1. No one is seriously trying to have cars banned. Yet.
2. You have a constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. Do you have a constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and drive cars? For the record, I think you should only have to register your vehicle if you drive it on public roads and that laws to the contrary are BS intended to generate revenue and reduce the number of "derelict" vehicles on private property.
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After all they can cause great bodily harm even more easily than a recklessly driven vehicle.
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I don't know about that. Ask the parents of the four kids killed recently by that illegal POS in Minnesota.
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The idea here is not to restrict gun ownership for law-abiding citizens. The idea is to make gun owners, both good and bad, more responsible and to more easily track down offenders. I bet if it wasn't for the NRA and its own agenda we'd already have this kind of system implemented.
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Were it not for the fact that registration facilitates confiscation, I might agree with you. But it does, so I don't, and I'm glad that me and my fellow NRA members have been able to counter gun grabbers as much as we have.