Such guns are already illegal. Are you proposing we pass a law to register illegal guns?
The vast majority of firearms are purchased legally. Gun shops selling them are required to keep physical records of serial numbers and purchasers for years. In the case of crimes committed the ATF traces serials number to the original buyer.
Mandatory registration will put all legal firearm data where it can be easily accessed en mass. The only reason the government would want to do this is if they planned mass confiscation.
Guns "sold off the back of a truck" are not illegal, unless they are shipped across state lines.
Gun shops selling them are required to keep physical records of serial numbers and purchasers for years.
Truedat. I asked my friend at the gun shop that very thing, and he says "20 years." In the first month after 20 years, the shop gives them to a document destruction company.
Mandatory registration will put all legal firearm data where it can be easily accessed en mass. The only reason the government would want to do this is if they planned mass confiscation.
The eventual confiscation has happened almost, if not every the time it's been tried. Pro banners ignore this fact and dismiss us as "paranoid" (and my new favorite, "selfish") because we don't believe them when they say "Nobody wants to confiscate your weapons."
Yes, they do, and I assume as much whenever anybody says they don't.