...You are so wrong......there is no way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, they can't do it in Europe or even Japan when their criminals decide they want guns...
True. You cannot prevent someone from obtaining a gun, when they are so fiercely determined to do so. But what you CAN do is to slow 'em down and make it vastly more difficult to do so, by several orders of magnitude, so that FAR FEWER asswipes get their hands on guns than they would in a wide-open environment. Which is what we see over there.
...And as to gun registration....there is absolutely no need for it.....criminals are not legally required to do it according to the Supreme Court,and if they don't have to then law abiding citizens don't have to either...
The point behind registration is to show a paper trail of ownership and possession, so that if-and-when a gun gets into the hands of a criminal we know who from.
...And we are the owners of this country....we pay for the police and military, not the other way around....if we give our employees guns, then we get to own those same guns....
Nolo contendere.
No contest,.
No objection.
Just register your guns, and obtain a license for them.
Problem solved.
...And registration will lead to confiscation and banning once the anti gunners get the political power and the right number of people murdered that they can drag in front of cameras.....and then like Britain and Australia...they will collect the guns.... No ******* way.......
Rubbish.
We have the Second Amendment to protect our Right to Bear Arms.
The point behind registration is to show a paper trail of ownership and possession, so that if-and-when a gun gets into the hands of a criminal we know who from.
Doesn't mean a thing.....they report the gun stolen if they knowingly purchased it for a gang member, and if it is stolen....then what....it doesn't matter who owned it since they didn't use it for a crime.......again...pointless and useless...
And on top of all of this....actual police say that the cost, the lost man hours and the infrastructure would be so vast to keep track of 320 million guns through all the hands they would pass that it would be impossible to do....and cost too much money to do......
So this is a fail on all levels......
And for every cop that you can find, who says it's a waste of time, you can find another who holds a different opinion.
As to the cost of registration and licensure and enforcement, it's already being done, to some extent or another, in a number of States...
Gun laws in the United States by state - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
You're on the Losing Side of an old argument and you're now behind the curve with the sentiments and Will of the American People at-large.
Why not get out in front of the thing yourselves, and be seen to be every bit as proactive and concerned as your fellow citizens, and help to tailor the message and the outcomes for the best possible yield in accordance with your baseline (point-of-depature) views, rather than taking a stand that can easily be circumvented by modern interpretation of Constitutional Law (as may already be seen in so many States) and coming off looking intransigent and unrealistic as the Nation and its People move forward in time?
Why not set the Standards nationwide, to be as liberal and generous and unrestrictive as practicable, so that each and every citizen of the United States enjoys the same degree of Exercise of Constitutional Rights, coast to coast, while being seen as socially proactive and concerned and broadly responsible and accountable, to your side's own benefit?
It's going to happen... it's happening already on the State level... and strong and genuine and sincere collaboration on the part of the Gun Rights community would go a long way towards actually relaxing restrictions on some of your number in some overly-stringent States while leveling the playing field so that all of us are treated the same in this context.
But, it is the fate of Man, and the fate of overly-rigid minds, that the Middle Ground is ignored as the Saving Grace that it is, when a concept like Gun Rights is under pressure.