How would you handle stolen property?
How do you enforce the secondary sale registration?
If I were a democrat? I wouldn’t, other than, perhaps, allowing the registered owner to insure against the risks. As far as stolen property goes.
Otherwise, the registered owner would be required to report the theft to the police as soon as it was discovered, and would be required to fully cooperate with any subsequent investigation. If the owner subsequently found the firearm, he would be required to report that fact immediately, and failure to do so would be a felony.
Private sales would have to be reported, and the buyer would have to sign a new registration, or else the prior owner would continue to be treated as the legal owner for liability purposes.
The legal owner would also be required to maintain a minimum level of insurance coverage at all times, and failure to do so would be a criminal offense. Insurers would be allowed to write policies of insurance against injuries caused by a firearm and, if one wanted to be sneaky, one would prohibit them from limiting their liability by capping the damages covered.
All of this would cut down on gun ownership quite significantly, and none of it would be an unconstitutional infringement because it’s all related to the legitimate desire of the government to ensure that gun owners act responsibly when owning a device with the potential for such grave mayhem. Under rational basis review, such a set of laws would almost certainly pass muster.
Like I said, it’s surprising that the democrats haven’t yet thought out such a course of action.