ATF Director may have to resign

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by MT2008

I'd like to know how anyone expects them to enforce a federal gun ban/confiscation program that would involve collecting millions of firearms across the entire country

Well, thing is that owner lists have used to go gun-grabbing; California used registration lists when they banned the SKS and New York did the same in 1991, despite promising they wouldn't use owner registers to confiscate legally held guns when they were introduced in the 60s. There's things like Associated Press demanding Illinois' entire FOID database, essentially publically listing everyone in the state who legally owns a firearm (and, by extension, providing a burglar-friendly database of everyone who does not).

Basically, it's a hideous violation of the gun-owner's right to privacy, and potentially dangerous to those who choose not to own a gun who can be named by omission if the registry is released publically.