“No law says I have to report sale, transfer, or even theft.”
Yet. We have such laws here in CA. You are right, when they banned certain models of “assault weapons” here they didn’t go door to door. They gave people a certain amount of time to register them or be felons. If you transfer not only those guns, but any guns to anyone including your kids you are a felon, and so are your kids. Do you want to make your kids felons? Criminals don’t care, but law abiding citizens do. The goal is not to gather up all the guns, Democrats never really care about charging actual criminals with gun crimes. Thousands of criminals are caught using guns every year. They aren’t prosecuted for violating gun laws even though they could get decades under federal law just for having the gun. Nope, the goal is to criminalize us, not prevent crime or gather up guns.
It hasn’t happened at the Federal level yet, thank goodness; at least we don’t have President Moonbeam.
Cold comfort this is, but the horrors unfolding against gun owners in CA, CT, NY, & MA due to ex post facto (what was legal is no longer legal) are being watched by all the other states. Kind of like West Germans seeing what went on in East Germany.
I invite blue state conservative gun owners to come to my state of South Carolina. Not perfect, but quite gun friendly. I know some of you are held there by family roots & your occupations but please give it some thought.