(1) Total registration/inspection/registration is not necessary for success. Selective showcase prosecutions will weaken the resolve of the non-compliant.
(2) Throw the IRS into the mix. They have become the enforcers of ObamaCare and recently added the authority to cancel U.S. passports of delinquent tax payers. All Uncle Sugar has to do is have the IRS threaten to freeze/seize your assets. Presto - compliance!
All this talk of sending LEO agents to your front door for inspections/confiscations is mental masturbation.
As has been well established in this post, mandatory registration is the 1st step. I need help on 2 questions.
1. Is the FBI or BATFE making a database of BATE Forms 4473s? I was under the impression that active FFL dealers kept the forms on their premises and only surrendered them when they surrendered their FFLs.
2. Is the FBI keeping a database of all of the searches done in its NICBC system of new firearm customers? I was under the impression that the FBI had to destroy these searches after a few days.
“All Uncle Sugar has to do is have the IRS threaten to freeze/seize your assets. Presto - compliance!”
Uh, no. People are quite capable of setting up alternative economic systems. Here’s one example:
Irish Banking Strike of the 1970’s
http://p2pfoundation.net/Irish_Banking_Strike_of_the_1970’s
1. Yes. They’re not supposed to, but when armed bureaucrats show up demanding to inspect your records on some strained premise, and start copying all the papers they can while threatening you with incarceration if you interfere, you tend to let them.
2. Probably, in the form of backups: officially deleted, but discoverable subsequent to a convenient law change.
I deal with it by being unquestionably registered. I know they know, and am not queasy about them knowing what I have - a bureaucratic version of open carry.