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On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:52:52 -0500, BAR wrote:

The only purpose of registration is to enable confiscation.

No, it also enables direct taxation. It will start as a
"reasonable"registration fee and then, just like car tags, it will
become another profit center for the cities and states.
Just like cigarette taxes, those without any guns will have no problem
allowing the tax to increase to prohibitive levels. You only have to
look at some of the taxes proposed so far, like the nickel a bullet
tax proposed in California, the $25 a gun tax in Chicago and the 5%
excise tax on everything shooting related in New Jersey.
Once a tax structure is in place, raising the tax is virtually a
stroke of a bureaucrat's pen.

Just look at cigarettes. Taxes are used to prevent use. New York at $4.35
a pack. To Mo. At $0.17 a pack.