I can promise you something undeniably, no matter how you feel about firearm rights, registration of firearms emboldens government to take them.
They also treat you differently if they see you have guns they fear or lots of guns. That person that might have been approached with a friendly knock on the door instead is visited with a tactical unit ready to deal with the nutcase that has items they fear. When law enforcement pull your car over on the road and see you are listed as having similar things they are more paranoid as they deal with you. Even though the biggest threats to them are typically career criminals that don't own firearms registered to them because they can't legally own firearms.
When government does not know who has what and where it is they feel it is almost hopeless to actually try and eliminate firearms, and instead focus on going after violators of gun laws when they are exposed. They are playing wack-a-mole much like they do with illegal drugs.
They are limited to incremental restrictions to ban and restrict because without that information they cannot enforce sweeping draconian measures with a high compliance rate.
When government knows where guns are they start to create ways to go after those guns, as well as implement other restrictions like enforced storage requirements and other increasing intrusions before they get to the point of taking them away.
In a lot of the world government agents come into your home and insure you are in compliance with the firearms they know about.
Once California got a decent number of registered firearms a task force was created to constantly check for anyone that becomes prohibited under an increasing number of prohibiting offenses (another part of the strategy is to ban more people from owning guns on the march towards banning the guns) or accusations and actively goes to homes to take those firearms.
The disarmament squad.
Every nation has imposed registration before taking away firearms. Once on the book enough years that they feel they know where most of the firearms are they start to systematically take them away, and require more special red tape for the ones they have not gotten around to taking away yet.
When they do go for the guns they prefer a list of all known guns a target has.
Even firearms not previously registered if registered whenever transferred legally start to get a computer database trail (no longer just a paper trail.)
Modern computer databases are shared both legally and illegally between government agencies, retained when they are not supposed to be when allowed to be briefly shared, and otherwise spread in the computer age.
In a time of hacking it also means a database that is widely available enough and has low enough security to be conveniently accessed by all law enforcement, can be hacked and people in our own nation and abroad can use that information or sell it to others.
Imagine organized crime or terrorists browsing a list of firearms by address that they can retrieve to arm themselves. Firearms are also one of the more valuable portable objects people own, on par with jewelry and cash, and a firearm database for criminals would be about on par with a database of jewelry.
There is also plenty of crooked law enforcement, and with such widely accessible databases you can be sure the occasional bad actor will put that information in bad hands on purpose.
The only purpose of government knowing where the guns are is to impose new controls on those firearms. Governments from the dawn of time do not like citizens to have weapons on par with their enforcers, they can impose maximum control over the population utilizing fewer resources when only those under their direct control have effective arms. When they can deploy 100 agents and take on 10,000 armed peasants. This is natural they want to accomplish the most with the least resources and have absolute control with little threat from the population they depend on for tax revenue. The founders knew this and it is why the 2nd was a restriction on government from infringing on a right that government is motivated to infringe on.
Well government knows where all the guns it dislikes are it starts to use that information for many different purposes.
These are not unfounded or paranoid fears. The UN even has an entire department dedicated to disarming the world of civilian held small arms and light weapons.
The European Union similarly works towards disarming member states, even those that want to retain firearm rights.
Whenever you combine governments there is one thing they can see eye to eye on even when they disagree about so much, disarmament of the peasants.
The biggest representation of governments all over the world actively try to disarm citizens of every nation. Citizens with arms are a threat of rebellion or civil war and threaten order. Whether that order is good or bad, dictatorships or democracies, the powers that be all want absolute power, and you can't have absolute power when the citizens are a wild card. But absolute power always corrupts absolutely.
They also treat you differently if they see you have guns they fear or lots of guns. That person that might have been approached with a friendly knock on the door instead is visited with a tactical unit ready to deal with the nutcase that has items they fear. When law enforcement pull your car over on the road and see you are listed as having similar things they are more paranoid as they deal with you. Even though the biggest threats to them are typically career criminals that don't own firearms registered to them because they can't legally own firearms.
When government does not know who has what and where it is they feel it is almost hopeless to actually try and eliminate firearms, and instead focus on going after violators of gun laws when they are exposed. They are playing wack-a-mole much like they do with illegal drugs.
They are limited to incremental restrictions to ban and restrict because without that information they cannot enforce sweeping draconian measures with a high compliance rate.
When government knows where guns are they start to create ways to go after those guns, as well as implement other restrictions like enforced storage requirements and other increasing intrusions before they get to the point of taking them away.
In a lot of the world government agents come into your home and insure you are in compliance with the firearms they know about.
Once California got a decent number of registered firearms a task force was created to constantly check for anyone that becomes prohibited under an increasing number of prohibiting offenses (another part of the strategy is to ban more people from owning guns on the march towards banning the guns) or accusations and actively goes to homes to take those firearms.
The disarmament squad.
Every nation has imposed registration before taking away firearms. Once on the book enough years that they feel they know where most of the firearms are they start to systematically take them away, and require more special red tape for the ones they have not gotten around to taking away yet.
When they do go for the guns they prefer a list of all known guns a target has.
Even firearms not previously registered if registered whenever transferred legally start to get a computer database trail (no longer just a paper trail.)
Modern computer databases are shared both legally and illegally between government agencies, retained when they are not supposed to be when allowed to be briefly shared, and otherwise spread in the computer age.
In a time of hacking it also means a database that is widely available enough and has low enough security to be conveniently accessed by all law enforcement, can be hacked and people in our own nation and abroad can use that information or sell it to others.
Imagine organized crime or terrorists browsing a list of firearms by address that they can retrieve to arm themselves. Firearms are also one of the more valuable portable objects people own, on par with jewelry and cash, and a firearm database for criminals would be about on par with a database of jewelry.
There is also plenty of crooked law enforcement, and with such widely accessible databases you can be sure the occasional bad actor will put that information in bad hands on purpose.
The only purpose of government knowing where the guns are is to impose new controls on those firearms. Governments from the dawn of time do not like citizens to have weapons on par with their enforcers, they can impose maximum control over the population utilizing fewer resources when only those under their direct control have effective arms. When they can deploy 100 agents and take on 10,000 armed peasants. This is natural they want to accomplish the most with the least resources and have absolute control with little threat from the population they depend on for tax revenue. The founders knew this and it is why the 2nd was a restriction on government from infringing on a right that government is motivated to infringe on.
Well government knows where all the guns it dislikes are it starts to use that information for many different purposes.
These are not unfounded or paranoid fears. The UN even has an entire department dedicated to disarming the world of civilian held small arms and light weapons.
The European Union similarly works towards disarming member states, even those that want to retain firearm rights.
Whenever you combine governments there is one thing they can see eye to eye on even when they disagree about so much, disarmament of the peasants.
The biggest representation of governments all over the world actively try to disarm citizens of every nation. Citizens with arms are a threat of rebellion or civil war and threaten order. Whether that order is good or bad, dictatorships or democracies, the powers that be all want absolute power, and you can't have absolute power when the citizens are a wild card. But absolute power always corrupts absolutely.
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posts on the thread already is nice, but...
