I just bought a gun this week. I believe it was registered. My name was taken down and the serial number for the gun, then the guy at Cabela’s called in for the background check. Isn’t that “registration”? What more does she want?
That is NOT registration.
They dont call in the serial # and all thay say is John Doe bought “handgun” or long gun” only the FFL has details of the transaction.
Still, that is to close to registration as the Feds can demand records
“What more does she want?”
Where shall I begin...
That by itself is not necessarily registration unless you live in a state that requires handgun registration like CA. Everybody who buys from dearlers (FFL's) go thru background checks and the fed 4473 form.
The paper record remains with the FFL. Not sure what happens to these records if the FFL closes shop.
It is illegal, I believe, for the federales to keep any “instant check” records beyond a short time period. But I would be VERY surprised if they actually destroyed the records as required by law.
Thank the NRA for the Brady instant check law, which is a defacto registration system.
She wants to register your gun so that they will know who has a gun once it comes time to confiscate them.
Confiscation: That's what she really wants.
In a way. IIRC it was Bush policy and maybe codified in law that the registering and checking agency not retain those records for more than 24 hours before destroying (deleting?) them. For expressly this reason. Historically, registration leads to confiscation. Period. This is always the underlying theme in the "One Gun A Month" schemes. Before they can allow you to buy your one gun, each month they have to know exactly how many guns you already have, by make, caliber and serial number. Look at David Dinkins the former mayor of New York. I know, you don't want to, but try for a moment. Dinkins wanted to register all the semi auto shotguns in the area (the 5 boroughs?) and he PROMISED he wouldn't confiscate. Yet within a year he did exactly that. I think he had a grace period to move the guns out of town, de-mil them to a nonfiring status or turn them in.
No that is not the sort of registration she is asking for. In fact the law requires the record of that background check transaction to be destroyed after the transaction is approved. The law expressly forbids the keeping of records of lists of gun owners tied to the specific guns they own. (That's at the federal level, YMMV by state and local jurisdiction).
What she wants is to remove those limitations on the background check information, and keep the records of who has what. Plus require all currently owned weapons to be registered as well.