(08-05-2019, 08:34 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-05-2019, 12:04 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I guarantee you, none of the people I know would register their guns or show up for classes, (they already know how to safely handle a gun and don't feel they need to prove it to the government.) Thinking you could register all of them or even half of them in a generation is a pipe dream.

Nobody would, at first.  The police would enter into a home, as they do today, on suspicion (legit or not) of drugs or domestic violence, they would happen to notice the unregistered semi-auto rifle and suddenly a notice to appear turns into an immediate arrest without bail.  The police would make sure this incident got a lot of publicity.

Of course, many counties would not operate this way, because they would elect sheriffs that don't want to enforce such a law (look at Colorado) but most of the counties with most of the people would go ahead and abide by the law after a few people are made examples of.

Americans abide much more egregious intrusions already, and we excuse them with, "if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide." We would do the same here.

You make it sound like everyone who owns these types of guns are woman beating, drug dealers. I assure you, that is not the case. Probably 97% of the people who own semi-automatic rifles are law abiding citizens who bought the guns legally and have never been in trouble with the law and probably never will. They may not trust the government, but that doesn't make you a criminal. The people who have them that I know are church going, blue collar workers with morals and values. Just because they don't want to register weapons that they bought long ago, in a legal fashion, does not make them bad. I know I certainly trust the government less now, than at any point in history. Why would I want them to know that I have something they might not approve of? If no one knows you have that type of weapon, why would I take the chance of registering it? That would be stupid.

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