A Usenet persona calling itself Nisarel wrote:

Scott Weiser wrote:

The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.

That's not a decision you get to make. That's a decision that
society as a whole makes, through the representative democratic
process.

So if the USA 'society' decides that all firearms must be registered, you'd go
along with it?

I would object to it, because it's a very, very bad idea. This is because
registration is ALWAYS the precursor to confiscations and seizures by
authorities, no matter how much they may promise it's not going to happen.
Australia, Canada and GB prove that, and we've had several instances in the
US as well, specifically New Jersey and California.

Further, nothing in the Constitution prohibits gun registration, and indeed
most guns are "registered" through the Form 4477 you have to fill out when
you purchase a new gun from a dealer, although this system has been kept
deliberately cumbersome so the BATFE would have great difficulty in using
the forms as a way to confiscate firearms.

However, if gun registration is imposed over the objections of gun owners, I
will then, of course, obey the law...while I work extra hard to unseat those
who approved it and get the law repealed.

What I might do when the government attempts to *confiscate* my firearms is
a different matter entirely.
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