I didn’t know guns had to be registered...
“I didn’t know guns had to be registered...”
You frequently see this in news articles. The only explanation I can think of is that reporters think all guns are supposed to be registered. They have only the haziest understanding of how anything works and what they know about guns is entirely from a left political view. I think we can be fairly certain that no Secret Service or police agency gave them this wording. When reporting on guns reporters reach into their shallow bag of over-used stock phrases which are designed to signal “guns bad” “no guns good.”