The laws I propose are not designed to- "impede the law abiding without affecting criminals" but rather to provide law enforcement with information it needs to track and trace stolen firearms, and to encourage safe practices and lawful transfers/dispositions. That is, not sales from the back of a truck, roamer.
It amazes me that, as I said before, I live where there are more guns per square inch than anywhere on the planet, where I CAN buy guns without any of your ludicrous laws in my way, and we here don't have the problems you do. Nearly everyone I know has multiple guns, freely carried about, and our gun crime is low... Way low if you omit the liberal city centers.
You will not track and trace stolen arms. You might know the gun got stolen (which would probably be reported anyway), but once it is stolen, POOF! gone. No tracking, no tracing, because the criminal element doesn't give a shit about your titles and requirements.
And I guarantee you won't get compliance. Just from the point of the margin on the sale, the seller will not be able to get his profit, because the dealer doesn't buy at retail. So you are imposing an immediate loss of equity to comply.
Equally, with compliance, you are removing the ability to defend and subsist from poor people across the west. Because now they will have to buy at full retail price (which none of them can afford), not to mention what will predictably be an exorbitant insurance fee, where they were once able to dicker and trade, and at street value. . You forget that people here NEED guns to survive. And not just one. Somewhere around six or more, and most guys have way more than that.
And that's not even touching the fact of a forcible registration of guns, wherein even our state house and governor will tell you to kiss all our asses, Democrat or Republican alike.
So you won't get compliance. Not here, as has already been proven by Washington State's misbegotten venture down this road. Almost literally ZERO compliance.
Gun owners aren't special. Store owners must keep records of sales and pay appropriate taxes, and abide by nondiscrimination laws. Car owners must register their vehicles and purchase insurance. Banks must abide by rules when lending money. Lots of activities are subject to regulation in this modern world. And while I share your concern about unnecessary, onerous and expensive regulation, your position that gun owners are somehow special and should be subject to no regulation or restrictions at all as they amass their private arsenals, is patently ridiculous.
No, what is patently ridiculous is that you think merely passing a law is going to force willing compliance. If you want to register Montana guns, you'll have to do it the old fashioned way. Door to door. Come and get em.
And I will most certainly continue to buy off the back of a truck, just like I always have, and will not pay your insurance, because my guns will never be registered. Your law be damned.
So pass all the idiotic laws you want in your state. Leave my state the hell alone.