[FourPeas]

If one existed (a national ballistics database), the police hunting for the sniper would have been able to trace the murder weapon days ago.and at least nine live might have been saved

The saddest part is, there are A LOT of people who will believe this. They also believe that once the gubmint has this information, they would never use it to confiscate. In America, these same people have the right to vote.

[Tax-chick]

Even if they had the information, they probably couldn't use it to any reasonable purpose (disregarding the obviously evil, unconstitutional, confiscatory subtext of the proposal).

This is the same US Government that's loused up the Social Security cards on 3 out of 6 of our children, when we gave them the applications and birth certificates (simple names, spelled correctly ...) at their office and everything.

Here's a proposal: people who don't own guns shouldn't be allowed to vote! Whoops, that would be me, unless you count the boys' bb-guns. I always borrow a gun from Dad. Note about Christmas present ...