We have the benefit of knowing what has happened elsewhere.
In those cases the people were solemnly promised Registration wouldn’t lead to Confiscation ... until it did
We were at a X-mas party several years ago and met a couple from Canada. She’s American he’s well to do Canadian and owns a farm out in East Bumfrick Canada somewhere. They were delightful and in the course of conversation the Canadian gun registration came up. This guy just laughed and said “not everybody registered their guns and there a helluva lot of guns in Canada. So there ya go.