Are you willing to bet your life on that? Which would you prefer, a manufacturers guarantee or a dealers service warranty? (Fed vs state)
As if Wyoming would ever help Massachusetts enforce its gun-control laws?
Probably not, but I am sure that the states of Washington, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, etc., would be more than willing to share information. If your firearm was manufactured in one of these states, your own state could get the desired information.
The point I am politely, but obliquely, trying to make is that no level of government, states in particular, can be trusted with anyones basic rights.
Are you willing to bet your life on that?
Considering that it would already be happening if the people were willing to tolerate it, the answer's pretty clear. The trick to oppressing people is not to do it in a way that makes most of them notice. The people in power already know that most people, even in liberal states, are generally favorably disposed toward gun rights, which is why even Democrat politicians (think Kerry) will pay lip service to it. It's just that they're able to keep people mostly distracted on other issues to keep them from raising too much of a stink over it. But do something like what you describe, and a lot of politicians will be out of a job permanently (at the very least).
Probably not, but I am sure that the states of Washington, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, etc., would be more than willing to share information. If your firearm was manufactured in one of these states, your own state could get the desired information.
Once a firearm is manufactured and exported to another state, the state that it came from will no longer be able to know what becomes of it. So a gun is manufactred in Oregon and then shipped to a retail outlet in Wyoming. Oregon is not going to know who bought it from the retailer.
Amen! But I think it stands to reason, and the evidence supports, that the federal government will go bad before all 50 states will.