Says FFL, Firearms Training Instructor and Gunsmith, why have firearm registration? lets draw a comparison with car registration and tie it all together. Have you thought it through? Let’s work through it together.

The easiest thing to do is draw a parallel - cars are registered and have been for a long time. Does registration prevent crime? Do people still speed, do they drive drunk? Are cars used as getaway vehicles in thefts? Sure - happens a lot. So, say you saw a grey Asian import being used in a bank robbery - plates were obscured/removed. You call the cops, tell them the bank was robbed and the getaway was, you think, a grey Camry, maybe a Corolla. How many of those are around? Add silver, add Hondas and Kias which look a lot the same…. You see the problem - the cops can’t stop every grey/sliver Asian import. It isn’t until they have a SPECIFIC car in hand, and which they tie directly to the crime, that they can possibly run the VIN, and find out who last registered it. Until that car is in hand, the registration data is worthless.

So, they have the car, and can tie it to crime. They ran the VIN, and went to the guy, and ask about his grey Kia. “Sold it 3 months ago”, or “my kid borrowed it 3 months ago, haven’t seen it since”. They go to the kid who says, “it was stolen, and I’m scared to tell my dad.”. The guy who now has the car hasn’t re-registered it. No thief would, and not all car buyers do. If they even track down the buyer, he could well have sold it again. The trail runs real cold real fast. But who is it they interrogate? The last person that registered it, of course. He’d best have a good alibi and a better lawyer.

So no help with crime. Registration doesn’t stop speeding or bank robberies. What does it do? Don’t’ you get a bill every year from the tax office wanting you to pay up to reregister the car? How did they know where to send the bill, and what the car was? The registration.

So, registration is great for taxation - without it there may not be any road taxes.

And what else? Say they determine your car is a threat to climate change and you must surrender it. Where do you think, they are going to send the tow trucks?

So, what makes you think registering guns will be any different? The registry isn’t to stop crime, it’s to enable taxation and confiscation. Nothing else.

Gregg Kielma

Tactical K Training and Firearms