"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Hmmm... I thought the issue was a national registry, which means
that some federal agency would have to have a set of records. I
believe there was a 60 Minutes show on it a while ago, but I can't
remember the details.

Same folks who faked exploding chevy gas tanks IIRC.

There is a national registery right now that costs taxpayers nothing because
private companies pay to keep it up. The "problem" is it doesn't employ
BATF or FBI agents. Like all good bureaucrats, the Bureaus of ATF and
Investigation want congress to give them each a few $billion/year to take
over that registery and take agents off the streets and put them to counting
beans. "If we had a national registery we could trace any gun found
associated with a crime" they say. That's true - but what they forget to
mention is that they do that right now, every day. What can we expect from
the bureaucrats who gave us the Waco and Ruby Ridge massacres?