The History Of Gun Registration And Gun Control

What is the true underlying reason behind gun registration? The unknowing gun owner (and non-gun owners) often wonder, “Why should I worry about registering my guns? If gun registration will help reduce the type of shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut why should I be opposed to registration?”

This is exactly what those proposing a national database of registered guns want you to think—that registration will somehow prevent crime, make you safer, that there is no other reason for it, and therefore no reason you should be against it.

First, keep in mind that the state of Connecticut did require “assault weapon” registration at the time of the most recent school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown. Yet, the registration law did nothing to prevent one of the worst school shootings in history. The conversation about this should stop right there because that alone sufficiently shows that gun registration won’t prevent gun crime.

But for the sake of those who want more I will point out that, second, criminals don’t register their guns. (This is really the most important reason—rule number one—as to why registration has no effect on crime.)

Gun registration doesn’t prevent guns from being stolen and doesn’t prevent them from being used in crimes. Criminals get their guns by stealing them or purchasing them through other criminals This means that even if a gun was registered, if it’s stolen, and if the police documented that information, that still doesn’t prevent the criminal from committing a crime in the future with the stolen gun even though it was registered.

In short, it’s more than obvious that gun registration will have no effect on gun crime whatsoever, no matter what the media and anti-gun politicians are peddling.

Gun registration is a redundant process requiring more government dollars (your tax dollars) for another money-wasting program. When a law-abiding citizen purchases a firearm, the serial number is already documented and given to the police department. Since you need a photo ID with your current address to purchase a gun anyway, this is the same as law enforcement or the government knowing exactly how to track a gun to the rightful owner. In other words, law enforcement already has the ability to track a gun to the person who purchased it. As the laws currently are, tracking a gun takes nothing more than a routine amount of energy.

Even in the face of these simple facts, new gun legislation is being proposed right now on adding more gun registration. The only logical reason—and the hope of the anti-gun population—is that this list will facilitate the eventual full confiscation of all firearms.

Since there is no evidence whatsoever to back up the claim that gun registration will reduce gun violence, what additional purpose could gun registration possibly have?

It makes sense here to look at what the anti-gun lobby won’t tell you about the history of the countries that have been successful in tricking their citizens into registering their firearms. Gun control and total confiscation starts with the registration of firearms.

Even Attorney General Janet Reno said, "Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."

Those who have committed murder in the largest degree are the dictators that have first disarmed their citizens—Mao Tze Tung, Josef Stalin, Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, etc. History suggests that the largest mass murderers are corrupt governments.

“All political power comes for the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns,that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party”
- Mao Tze Tung, Nov. 6, 1938

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents (translated—people who disagreed with the government), unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Hitler stated, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. So let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.”

The Nazis used gun registration lists when conquering areas of Russia to go door to door to remove the guns of the law-abiding citizens promising them safety in return.

Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

Gun control was established in China in 1935 and between 1948 and 1952 20 million political dissidents (those who disagreed with the government) were rounded up and killed.

Of more recent time, Uganda established gun control in 1970. They didn’t waste any time, as from 1971 to 1979 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and murdered.

Pol Pot ,was responsible for killing 27 percent of his own ‘educated’ and unarmed citizens in Cambodia.

Even after knowing all this, the anti-gun advocates like to make the ludicrous claim that they have to register their vehicle and that there are numerous other regulations on their vehicle, as if that somehow pertains to gun registration.

First, no one is interested in confiscating vehicles—even though, ironically, they are involved in thousands more deaths than guns. I would also ask those who so proudly proclaim their favor of registration, “How many drunk driving fatalities has vehicle registration prevented? How many vehicular homicides?” And, “How does vehicle registration work in preventing car-jacking and outright theft of vehicles?” Using the vehicle registration ideology, based on absolutely no connection between the registration of vehicles and the reduction of vehicular deaths or crimes, why would anyone in their right mind think registering a firearm would have a useful effect against gun crime? Remember rule number one—criminals don’t register their guns.

In the face of how gun registration continues to pan out in the other countries who have adopted it, it would be hard for even those bombarded by grossly inept governmental misinformation not to see that firearm registration is just the start of banning and confiscating the guns from the law-abiding citizens of a nation.

Sure, this drastic change to the future firearm landscape is hard to fathom when all your liberties are still intact. But history is a great teacher and it would be worth heeding those from other countries--many who are calling out from their graves--who are warning us what the end result will be.

As Bradlee Dean said, “The civil government that desires such a monopoly of force [the only ones with guns] is a threat to the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, for that government has [at that point] ceased to be “of and for the people.”

No matter what the claim, there are no good reasons for the registration of guns—except to those who want to take them. In other words, the goal of gun registration is to have a readily available list for when the time comes to ban guns just for the sake of banning guns. This should make it very apparent to the now newly informed, that gun control is not about the guns—it is about control.

Next we discuss real solutions to our crime in the United States that will actually work.