Wanna repeal '86 MG ban?

[H088]

mljdeckard, if you're not a criminal, what are you afraid of?

The definition of criminal can change very quickly.

I am not for a registry but if it comes down to bans I would certainly take registration instead.

 

[PTK]

mljdeckard

SA was trying for sarcastic humor, methinks.

 

[freakshow10mm]

Ask our British or Australian members about national registries.

 

[matt87]

Registration is a fairly certain prerequesit for confiscation. Can't put it any more succinctly or accurately than that.

 

[mljdeckard]

THEY CAN'T CONFISCATE IF THEY NEVER REGISTER IN THE FIRST PLACE.

There are (At least) 270 million unregistered guns in America. No matter what steps are taken that will require LAW ABIDING people to register them, there will be a margin of NON law abiding people who will not comply. This is the reality which makes the possibility remote enough that practical-minded people won't try it. As soon as they convince us that we must comply 'for the common good', it's all over.

 

[BullpupBen]

Whats so bad about a potential federal gun registry? I would rather have registration then bannings of fire-arms, especially if most of the federal bans would be removed.

Every single total gun ban has had gun registry as its precursor. This is especially true when the ones banning were a tyrannical government which needed to disarm its people. Maybe you should look at this chart:

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#dgc

Registration or some kind of federally mandated permit is in virtually every one. I think the only one that it isn't in is communist china, where the government had already gone far far past that point among all the other civil liberties.

 

[H088]

If you can't buy the gun at all, it seems like it won't really matter.

I am not for either, but when it comes down to being able to purchase new firearms verses not being able to. I would still rather register them then have them banned completely.

 

[Art Eatman]

This has gotten pretty much away from a repeal of the ban...