If you read my post #52, you may understand.
I do not like the idea of gun registration, but I am practical in this regard: Everything they are proposing is already law of the land. As one swamp creature put it, they have shipping containers filled with Forms 4473 so they already have effective gun registration.
As an LTC holder, they can already guess that I own firearms, and they know where I live. We would truly have to live in a fantasy world to think that we can continue to hide in anonymity.
Meanwhile, we could turn their logic against them and make them swallow a poison they do not wish to take … namely Reciprocity. Also, we could force them to admit that Gun Free Zones only enable criminal behavior.
I would prefer Constitutional Carry, but the Democrats will never allow that. Having such an amendment stuck on a National Licensing Act would basically make Constitutional Carry the law of the land. The Democrats would vote their own bill down.
I can’t fault your optimism, but concessions by the Dems are rarely of any great value and tend to evaporate like the morning dew. Example: NYC 1976 - New Yorkers who owned the dreaded “assault weapons” were required to register them with the promise that the registration lists would NEVER be used for confiscation. Fast forward to 1991. Democrat mayor David Dinkins got the city council to pass a semiauto ban where all of those fools who complied with the registration laws were given notice that they had 90 days to get rid of their property or turn them in to the police. Those who did not comply got a visit from NYC’s finest jackbooted thugs and were arrested.
Never ever trust a politicians promise