I would like GCA '68, NFA and ALL victim disarmament laws gone, PERIOD.
We as peaceable citizens DO hold the authority to deal with someone who is NOT peaceable. Then we can prosecute him if he survives. So where's the need for gooberment intervention? Or gooberment lists and databases? The idea is that government does not need to know who is and is not armed unless for some reason (military forces) it has armed them. Or holds them unarmed for a period of incarceration. That's it and that's all.
This database is not about the government "knowing who is and is not armed," it's about the government knowing who is not permitted to be armed, under existing law, so that it can meaningfully enforce that law.
A couple of years ago gun owners were calling for enforcement of the laws on the books, remember? Well, this bill makes that possible.
Indeed, the headline to this article is very misleading. "Millions more" will not be barred from gun ownership. In fact, nobody who is not already prohibited from owning a gun will be barred from gun ownership by this bill. They may have bought a gun by virtue of the invisibility of their state wife-beating conviction to the NICS, but that doesn't mean they bought it, or possess it, legally.