Yep. - I was raised by a father who had been an infantryman in WWII; had been in N. Africa, Sicily, Italy & Germany. When Truman (the U.S.) dropped the atomic bomb, he was still in the Army, looking at a possibly one-way trip to Japan. - I was raised with guns & “registration” was a foreign concept.
So you’re old enough to remember when this was a free country.