Having unregistered guns is a crime, meaning you become a criminal overnight if you do not comply.
You have to register your gun or...
You can't transport your guns without risking being pulled over, searched, and taken to jail for having an unregistered gun.
You can't take your gun to a range to practice because if it is unregistered, the range will report you (they don't want to get in trouble and this loophole will be quickly closed when democrats realize they can mandate that ranges record serial numbers of guns used at their range).
You risk going to jail if you practice on private property because Karen might hear/see you and report you to the authorities.
You can't buy any new guns without registering them legally, meaning you are stuck with what you have or you pay massive black market prices and will likely get your dog shot when the ATF does a sting on you.
So, why not just register them? There are a lot of incentives to. But wait, what is the point of a gun registry? Just because they have a giant database of some/most of the guns doesn't stop criminals using them for criminal things, and it doesn't actually help with investigations or prosecutions of criminals. A big list of guns and their owners only helps if the criminal is using their own registered firearm and then leaves it at the scene of the crime, and even then, the police already have plenty of ways to tie the owner of a gun to that specific gun if it is found at the scene of the crime, or even to tie casings and bullets to a specific firearm. If the criminal takes the gun with them, the registry doesn't help, casings can later be tied to that gun and if it is found in your possession you are cooked anyways. If the gun is stolen, the registry doesn't help. The registry, therefore, is only really helpful for finding guns that have never been used for criminal activity. Why would the government want to do that?
Gun confiscation/bans/buybacks! A registry makes it easy to do one thing and one thing only, track down guns that have never been used for a crime and belong to a law abiding citizen who chose to comply and register their gun.
So what about a gun ban? Should you comply if they ban your AR15 and require you to destroy it or turn it in?
You cant be seen with it, you can't sell it, cant legally buy ammo for it, you can't upgrade it, you can't practice with it, if you use it for personal/home defense you will be prosecuted, if you use it for hunting you will be prosecuted... so on and so forth.
The gun registry has been drafted in the house. Bury your guns if you want, but you might as well be burying drug money you can't spend and will get you in a lot of trouble if someone finds it.
Best bet is probably to move to a free country that won't ban your guns. Oh wait, there are no more free countries.
Gun registration means:
Having unregistered guns is a crime, meaning you become a criminal overnight if you do not comply.
You have to register your gun or...
You can't transport your guns without risking being pulled over, searched, and taken to jail for having an unregistered gun.
You can't take your gun to a range to practice because if it is unregistered, the range will report you (they don't want to get in trouble and this loophole will be quickly closed when democrats realize they can mandate that ranges record serial numbers of guns used at their range).
You risk going to jail if you practice on private property because Karen might hear/see you and report you to the authorities.
You can't buy any new guns without registering them legally, meaning you are stuck with what you have or you pay massive black market prices and will likely get your dog shot when the ATF does a sting on you.
So, why not just register them? There are a lot of incentives to. But wait, what is the point of a gun registry? Just because they have a giant database of some/most of the guns doesn't stop criminals using them for criminal things, and it doesn't actually help with investigations or prosecutions of criminals. A big list of guns and their owners only helps if the criminal is using their own registered firearm and then leaves it at the scene of the crime, and even then, the police already have plenty of ways to tie the owner of a gun to that specific gun if it is found at the scene of the crime, or even to tie casings and bullets to a specific firearm. If the criminal takes the gun with them, the registry doesn't help, casings can later be tied to that gun and if it is found in your possession you are cooked anyways. If the gun is stolen, the registry doesn't help. The registry, therefore, is only really helpful for finding guns that have never been used for criminal activity. Why would the government want to do that?
Gun confiscation/bans/buybacks! A registry makes it easy to do one thing and one thing only, track down guns that have never been used for a crime and belong to a law abiding citizen who chose to comply and register their gun.
So what about a gun ban? Should you comply if they ban your AR15 and require you to destroy it or turn it in?
You cant be seen with it, you can't sell it, cant legally buy ammo for it, you can't upgrade it, you can't practice with it, if you use it for personal/home defense you will be prosecuted, if you use it for hunting you will be prosecuted... so on and so forth.
The gun registry has been drafted in the house. Bury your guns if you want, but you might as well be burying drug money you can't spend and will get you in a lot of trouble if someone finds it.
Best bet is probably to move to a free country that won't ban your guns. Oh wait, there are no more free countries.