by Stephen P. Halbrook
“Universal background checks.... Effectiveness depends on ... gun registration....” So says the National Institute of Justice, part of the Obama Justice Department, in a 2013 study. Criminalizing the transfer of firearms between law-abiding citizens—the only ones who would undergo background checks—has nothing to do with preventing violence, but everything to do with registering gun owners.
The Second Amendment provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Incarcerating persons who fail to register to exercise this constitutional right, to say the least, infringes that right.
The European Union mandated that its members impose central electronic registration on all lawful gun owners. (Attention hackers.) Now, in response to recent terrorist attacks, the EU seeks to ban many types of firearms commonly possessed for sport and self-defense. How easy it will be to confiscate the registered firearms.
The terrorists forgot to register their weapons, so they won’t be turning them in.......Disorder in France in 1935 was the excuse for similar registration. That was just in time for the Nazi invasion in 1940. German soldiers put up posters warning that civilians who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours would be shot. With France defeated, the French police had only to consult their own registration records to identify disobedient gun owners and turn them over to the German firing squads......To Read More.....
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