[Redbob]

Excellent question.

My guess is that this issue becomes one of police powers, and per the 10th Amendment, police powers fall under the states. The federal government is not a police agency.

Some will argue that the feds can institute a National Firearms Registry under the "Commerce Clause", and a liberal judge like Stevens or Ginsburg would certainly rule that way, but that is certainly a stretch, to say that a registry of firearms owners pertains to interstate commerce!

Individual states can, I believe, create such a registry if their own constitutions permit it.

[tpaine]

Individual states can, I believe, create such a registry if their own constitutions permit it.
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Why do you 'believe' this?
Can't you see that such power possessed by a state would undermine your inalienable right to self defense?