Doesn't that factoid you cite indicate there's a problem?
Only to communist-gun-grabbing-meddlesome-tyrants like you.
Those "illegally obtained firearms" are the fruit of a wild west mentality that folks have the "right" to keep arsenals in secret, and buy and sell deadly weapons off the backs of trucks.
YUP. And we're gonna continue to keep doing so, and keep our 'wild west mentality' alive and well. The only way you are going to stop it - is to kill us. Well, actually you will have to empower the government's goons to do it for you because you are a coward that won't do what you advocate yourself. You hide behind the skirt of the courts and the government to do your evil bidding for you, like all tyrants do.
The goal of registration is assign each gun to the owner who is responsible for its use, transfer and disposition.
Your goal is confiscation, and this tyrannical attempt to register our weapons is specifically for that purpose - regardless of what you otherwise claim. We will not comply. F**K your "goal".
That documented legal responsibility will help dissuade folks from transferring their guns in secret to criminals.
Right, because criminals always reveal their intents to others in advance.
I am sick and tired of gun owners claiming they have the right to thumb their noses at the efforts of the people to get a handle on the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
Too damn bad. You're going to have to instigate a level of epidemic gun violent bloodshed in this country by agents of the state in order to get what you want.