and the world lived happily ever after /sarcasm
I better put a sarcasm switch on that..
Actually, the Wiemar Republic required gun registration, even though they might have not had a single nefarious motive for doing so. However, Hitler inherited the registration lists when he rose to power, and the rest is history. That's the main reason to oppose gun registration ALWAYS - it's easy to say that gun registration is bad when a tyrant does it, but harder to oppose it when the Fluffy Bunny party wants to do it. But the Fluffy Bunny party won't necessarily always remain in power.