I’m a bit confused by this. Let’s say I bought a S&W .45, and I ground the serial numbers off. How is that an advantage to me? Why would I want to do that? The government knows I bought a S&W .45 anyway.
Now let’s say I inherited a legal gun. If for some reason the Feds came to confiscate my guns, I don’t think missing serial numbers would help me.
Anyway, I think I’d want to keep the numbers on. If my gun gets stolen, there’d be a slight chance I could get it back
It doesn't help *if* the government is simply going house to house and demanding all firearms. But that is dangerous and incites rebellion.
On the other hand, if the government can tie a particular firearm by serial number to a particular person, they can say: turn in this particular firearm or we will stop your bank account.
If it is not illegal to own firearms where the serial number has been removed, they no longer have the power to tie a particular gun to a particular person.
The government is not supposed to know that you have guns, Where did you ever get that idea? That you have been convicted of a crime and thus forbidden to possess a firearm, yes. But if not, the firearms you possess is not supposed to be any of their business. Get that into your concept of what your liberties are.
The US government is turning a right into a government granted privilege that it can take away from you and yours that whatever psychotic comes to power can take away when they decide to prey upon you. Governments are the greatest cause of death and destruction against their own people.
It helped me get back one of the firearms that was stolen from me.