I mean yeah. I agree with you. But the idea of gun registration raises the hackles of the NRA. This is like asking to register a National Socialist national candidate to them
The idea of gun registration raises hackles because people have been sold two decades of slippery-slope bullshit from Wayne LaPierre. Does failing to register your car mean they can come take it? No. Does OPERATING an unregistered vehicle carry a penalty? Yes. Every single pro-gun argument falls immediately on its face. And I am a pro-gun owner with a concealed weapons permit. Tell me to go down to the range and get tested and register my guns, and I'll say, "Sure. I'll be there next week." Even better, provide a BuyBack program at the same time, so I can easily get rid of the guns I don't want, and get a little money from them, without worrying whether I am selling them to a nutcase, then even better ... I'll sell you three of my four guns. I don't know a single gun owner who WOULDN'T do this. It's Wayne LaPierre and his foreign-funded fuckwits who have fucked the conversation and derail it every time the conversation gets reasonable and logical.