It is only marginally close to hyperbole... ask DiFi and UpChuck Schumer. And I would not be so proud of having to ask government "permission" to exercise a RIGHT granted by GOD. All that does is give them a list of who is KNOWN to own weapons when the crackdown comes. You're actually OK with this?
The ONLY TIME government has any business whatsoever knowing who has what weapon is when that government has ISSUED that weapon to someone. Otherwise, for obvious reasons, it is NEVER good for ANY level of government to have such knowledge. In the cases of ACTUAL (as opposed to potential) misuse of a weapon, government in a FREE society has the authority to apprehend and prosecute the misuser, presuming he survives an encounter with an armed citizen. That is ALL the authority government has. READ the Constitution for the United States with your mind open to what the Founders actually MEANT and not what a socialistically-inclined modern FedGov WANT it to mean.
a RIGHT granted by GOD.
What kind of Christian are you WHEN the Bible speaks about God in relation to 'governing authoraties' in this manner (Romans 13, verses 1 - 4):
1. Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2. Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
3. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same;
4. for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath upon the one who practises evil.
Methinks you are an anarchist whose heart is set upon his *own* desires ...