Quote:Well there's the documented history of Cuba pre-Castro and their extensive gun registration and restrictions which left the populace helpless as Castro over threw the government.

 

Then there's also the well documented history of Germany pre-Hitler and their extensive gun restrictions, all though it probably wouldn't have stopped the NAZI party from rising in Germany.

 

Then there's the pre-Soviet Union era where the Bolsheviks attempted to disarm all the peasants. After the civil war Lenin allowed only hunting rifles to be owned by peasants (sounds familure only reason to own a rifle is to hunt?) Stalin went a step further and actively disarmed the peasants during collectivization.

 

The United Kingdom in 1921 created it's handgun registration and then every decade after instituted stricter laws until present day guns are essentially non-existent in the UK.

 

New Zealand in 1921 created a registration of revolver owners in the 1970's that list was used for confiscation.

 

Canada in the 1990's used the registration list to confiscate guns grandfathered in without compensation to the estates. 

 

1996 Australia used their registration list to confiscate all semi-automatic rifles.

 

Let's bring it home,

 

In Chicago during the 1990's the long-rifle registration was used to confiscate all semi-auto long guns owned in the Chicago city limits. 

 

In California they had a fun issue with the SKS after the registration period was closed they went back and forth every few years if the SKS was covered or not. Eventually many counties used the registration list to confiscate registered SKS rifles and without compensation to the estates. Later they offered to compensate the owners of SKS rifles with receipts of confiscation only twist was they didn't give receipts when they where confiscated. 

 

that's a short list, I'd challenge someone to find me a registration list that hasn't been used to confiscate or restrict ownership of firearms.