'Universal registration drives NRA types nuts: The more paranoid among them fear it would be a tool for government agents to seize their guns, while the less so worry that anything that has been registered also can be taxed. Maybe they shouldn't worry. Universal registration has been tried in several countries, most recently in Canada. The program turned out to be far more expensive than expected and didn't have any discernable impact on crime, perhaps because long guns are used so rarely by criminals in the first place. Canada's gun homicide rate, according to the handy statistics at Gunpolicy.org, has held steady since the late 1990s.' A total fail. One person managed to register a soldering gun Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniel...gistering-long-guns-and-gave-up/#721acf835a1b
The registry of the nation of Canada also proved useless in detecting stolen firearms that were submitted for registration by the thief at a later date. It failed to catch serial numbers that already existed, and were marked as being stolen in the first place.
The anti-gun left demands universal registration for one reason, and one reason alone: If you want to take the guns, you first need to know where they are.
Universal registration of guns is an objective within and objective cloaked in the public stated objective of public safety. It identifies those capable of armed resistance of left’s agenda and provides the means of identifying and demonizing likely voters that would oppose candidates that would facilitate that agenda.
Oh look! Congressional Democrats Introduce National Gun Registration and Licensing Act https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chris...l-gun-registration-and-licensing-act-n2488566
Simple political posturing considering the composition of Congress; it will die a quick death, never emerging from committee.
