I can also own a cannon if I want, no government permission necessary.
Keyes would change that, and not for the better I'm afraid, if his direct quote of today is any indication...
Okay, now you are just confusing me.
I assume you view the necessity of getting the proper paper-work as the direct equivalent of licensing (because it pretty much is - no paperwork no gun) so it seems to me that AT WORST you would be unhappy with Keyes for making no productive change towards more 2ndA rights.
But you keep saying that as you understand it you would have LESS rights. Frankly, I can't see how you arrive at that conclusion except by splitting semantical hairs over the word "license."
No, it's not semantics - licensing, in the sense he was alluding to with "like cars" means it's not a right, but a privilege - meaning we would have it at the whim of the government - THAT is what concerns me most...