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registering guns would be a means to regulate that has nothing to do with restricting. Guns that illegally make their way to the streets through straw purchases would be able to be traced to the original buyer. That buyer would then have to account for the gun
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You can't register something that is a protected right. You
can require registration for a privilege such as driving an car. Our Constitution does not say the people's privilege to keep and bear arms.
You should do a little research on how registration has led to varying levels of injustice to the owners of firearms. The largest city in your own state proved that it cannot be trusted with registration (
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=41).
There is a lot of information out there, and you don't even have to trust the NRA to find it for you. Look at how registration worked out for our friends across the pond in Great Britain. Here is a rather long essay on where "reasonable" gun control measures can leave us:
http://guncite.com/journals/okslip.html
Tell you what: why don't you start a new poll thread in this forum asking everyone "Registration of Firearms - For or Against". We'll see how unpopular this is. I've no doubt there are some here who support you, but you and they will be FAR outnumbered by those of us who believe that government has already lost our trust to the extent that we allow them to track and attempt to confiscate our only means of revolution if it ever came to that.