Oldest trick in the book. To use a shooting analogy, they've acquired the target (confiscation), and registration is cocking the hammer.
We have 45 months of this to contend with - more if this person with a questionable birthright proceeds toward the same goals as Hugo Chavez - so we really must get creative with our methods of concealment, especially given the status of modern metal detection technology.
Even if this doesn't get through, there'll be another run at it sooner or later, more like sooner. The Speaker and her fellow Bolsheviks can't wait to try this communism thing again.
In his book 15 years ago, NRA biggie Wayne LaPierre included a short history of "registration" in two or three U.S. municipalities, and in every case, the city administration, after a few years, went back and attempted to confiscate the registered weapons.
As the Washington Times article demonstrates by logic, the actual LE uses of registration are fairly weak, so that the only real purpose to registration is preparing to confiscate.
“We don’t want to take their guns away. We want them registered.”
They must think we are as loopy as they are! This has been the longest three months of my life and I’ll be fifty this week...all the potential rights grabbing is exhausting.