It’s simple. In those states with registration, or a new fed registration law, the gov’t knows who has how many guns.
Don’t turn them in? The state invalidates your drivers license and any other state issued licenses (contractor’s, etc.). Revoke our vehicle registration. Confiscate tax refunds, cut off state assistance.
In short, they can nearly destroy you. It is at this point, folks might use the guns they cling to.
How would the “state” possibly know if I dad any guns? which of course I don’t...
Even if I did when I was a younger man, that doesn’t mean that I do now.
I GET A HORSE.
The state revokes my vehicle registration?
I HAVE A HORSE - VEHICLE IN STORAGE.
Confiscate my tax return?
AM SELF SUFFICIENT - DON'T PAY TAXES EXCEPT PROPERTY TAXES.
State cuts off state assistance?
WHAT'S THAT! NEVER HEARD OF IT.