THE Gun Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and every country in the EU has firearm licensing and registration. All have a lower firearm homicide rate than the US.

So, before you declare it ‘to be highly unlikely to work’, you might want to look a little farther afield than Canada.

Boru

Oh - it would work - if every American rolled over when the government asked....

Think that real likely? (Look north for helpful hints)

If so - you haven' t met many Americans....

We' re an unruly lot...

For the record, I've done a bit of research on this subject: 

• Several states (Hawaii, New York, Maryland, Michigan, Connecticut, and New Jersey) already require certain types of firearms to be registered.
  
• The federal government currently possesses records on the sales of a bit shy of a billion firearms, which are (unfortunately) prohibited by law from being put into a functional, searchable database, but I don't see why, if the law is changed, those records can't be properly digitised (outside of being scanned as  "non-searchable, static images").
  
• These records they do have are because, by law, once a firearms dealer goes out of business, their records go (by law) to the ATF. So, it would seem like  the ideal option is to create a provision that active and licensed firearms dealers have to send their records to the ATF even before they go out of business.
  

This could actually work if the laws are changed, firearms dealer regulations are changed, and the laws are properly enforced. Unless, of course, ATF-licensed firearms dealers are really as unhinged as Biker either is or seems think everyone else is.