A concealed carry permit is a government issued ID. ...
Soooooo...the data being collected is being collected because of the GOP obsession with national identification cards.
And where exactly was that mentioned in the story? Oh, that's right, it wasn't. As usual, you're just making stuff up. However, this is more egregious than normal for you. Do you need your meds adjusted again?
You know how you guys scream for Voter ID all the time? Well, in order to determine what kind of government issued ID should be acceptable as Voter ID, or for any other purpose, you have to collect data on the various types of government issued ID, you dumb *****. To see which ones pass muster and can be used for all the ******* shit you want people to be carded for.
Ah, no you don't you stupid ****'n moron. God damn, you really are out of the stratosphere on stupidity here today. There is no "determination" to be made. This shows how desperate you are to make a point (and man, are you failing as usual). All that is required is a photo id. Period. So your drivers license is more than acceptable. So is a state issued ID card. And, if someone really wanted, you could even create voter ID cards (seems unnecessary, but it could be done). In any of these scenarios, absolutely NO data on people is required. ....
Wow... just when I thought your incoherent rambling couldn't get any more insane - you go and raise the insanity bar to new heights 
In fact the law being criticized was indeed insisted upon by the Bush Administration in 2005. CF report of the AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
"For Immediate Release: May 3, 2005
Contact:
Julia Hendrix
(202) 216-2404
jhendrix@aila.org
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS TAKE THE WRONG DIRECTION
Washington, D.C. — Congress is poised to pass, and the White House to sign, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill (H.R. 1268) that would support the military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and tsunami relief efforts. Sadly, the White House and Republican leadership compromised the integrity of that important measure by attaching to it the highly controversial, ill-conceived, divisive, and anti-immigrant REAL ID Act (H.R. 418). This measure has generated well-deserved opposition from more than 650 religious, ethnic, privacy, libertarian, immigration, and conservative groups, as well as representatives of state and local governments.
Once enacted, the REAL ID Act will have numerous negative consequences, including: making it extremely difficult for people fleeing persecution to obtain refuge in the United States; suspending the Great Writ of habeas corpus for the first time since the Civil War; increasing the number of uninsured, unlicensed drivers on our roadways; severely limiting the critical law enforcement utility of Department of Motor Vehicle databases; imposing impossible and unfunded mandates on the states; undermining our fundamental commitment to free speech and association; and waiving all laws related to construction of fences at our borders, thereby granting unprecedented, and unnecessary, authority to the Department of Homeland Security.
Along with being fatally flawed substantively, this bill gives Congress a black mark procedurally."
My take on this is whether or not the GOP or the DEMs were responsible for the law, it stands to reason that those who worry about a government conspiracy to repeal the 2nd Amendment would worry that the law is contrary to the right of privacy and has the unintended result that it enables the FEDs to create a data base of gun owners contrary to the GOP 2004 Platform that such a data base is contrary to the 2nd Amendment.
