Hand gun confiscation in this country is also unrealistic. Its not going to happen in my lifetime.
I do hope that you are correct and that we never live to see handgun confiscation imposed upon us by the federal government. Isn't it true, however, that effective confiscation has occurred in some municipalities by prohibiting possession of a handgun (and in some cases any kind of firearm)?
However, I confiscation doesn't have to occur for my argument to hold. Gun registration, and example you brought up, would impose upon us by requiring us to register guns. Bush's executive order imposes absolutely nothing on the Demonrats who are bellyaching (unless they are non-citizens and members of al Qaeda). I believe you have just helped prove that handgun confiscation (an abridgement, in my opinion, of my Constitutional protections) is almost infinitely more likely to occur than is some citizen's civil rights being infringed in any way by Bush's executive order.