But what about anonymous sales?
“I know I bought that rifle new, but I sold it a few years ago to some guy from the other side of the state. Don’t recall his name...”
> “But what about anonymous sales?”
I have bought a few of my guns through “anonymous sales”. However, I am not going to pass up the latest and greatest offerings of the gun factories, so many of mine have 4473 forms. I keep the non-4473 guns separate from my 4473 guns so they can disappear in a hurry if necessary.
In case anyone says that is not “registration”, keep in mind that when the dealer goes out of business, he has to send all forms to the BATF. That has been going on since 1968. How many gundealers have gone out of business since then?
I remember talking to one dealer years ago. He said that when he retired, he was going to have an unfortunate fire in the chicken coop he kept his 4473 forms stored in. A few years later, when Clinton increased the cost of a permit several hundred percent, there was a huge decrease in the number of gun dealers. However, I did not read about a huge increase in chicken coop fires. I suspect all of them turned in their forms, just like the guy above suspects we will all turn in our guns. I hope he is wrong.
BTW, I remember when the 1968 GCA was passed. I was a kid then, but I remember a lot of people saying that when we throw out the bums at the next election, it would be repealed. It did not happen. Keep that in mind when people spout off about repealing Obomacare. After a “temporary tax”, the most durable thing around is a government program.