Can there ever be federal gun registration?

[wakproductions]

Can the Federal government impose gun registration? Is it within their enumerated powers to tell people to register their guns that they already own?

 

[THard6]

sure, they can tell you whatever they want. will everyone follow their "tell"... i doubt it.

 

[dhnorris]

Droit du seigneur used to be in vogue as well, that changed in 1799.

 

[rambone]

Can the Federal government impose gun registration? Is it within their enumerated powers to tell people to register their guns that they already own?

Since when did enumerated powers matter? Almost everything the Feds do is unconstitutional by that standard.

 

[arthrimus]

Since when did enumerated powers matter? Almost everything the Feds do is unconstitutional by that standard.

Sooo... when are we gonna start doing something about that?

 

[poptab]

we are going to wait until its too late.

 

[us_agent]

They will probably wait a few more generations of people who don't care anymore. Then they can do what they want and it will be ok. We will be old or dead and it won't matter..

 

[theweakerbrother]

4474 is gun registration. I saw Red Dawn enough times to know that it is true.

 

[Justin Case]

They will probably wait a few more generations of people who don't care anymore. Then they can do what they want and it will be ok. We will be old or dead and it won't matter..

I'm already old and it still matters to me.

 

[ClydeB]

Can the Federal government impose gun registration? Is it within their enumerated powers to tell people to register their guns that they already own?

Enumerated powers? The Commerce Clause was the shovel that buried that constitutional concept decades ago. And regarding guns they already own? Who's to say that the "Federally mandated background check" data on weapon purchases from gun stores isn't being kept someplace indefinitely?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Who's to say that the "Federally mandated background check" data on weapon purchases from gun stores isn't being kept someplace indefinitely?

That would be against federal law.

However, arming criminal gangs in an allied nation thus committing an Act of War is also against federal law and look how well .gov did not do that.

 

[Liberty1911]

The "well regulated" language of 2A will be the door that opens almost anything they want to eventually do to gun owners.

I'd argue though that if anyone who understands proper grammar reads 2A, they'd know that it's the militia that is regulated, not arms.

 

[IndyDave1776]

The "well regulated" language of 2A will be the door that opens almost anything they want to eventually do to gun owners.

I'd argue though that if anyone who understands proper grammar reads 2A, they'd know that it's the militia that is regulated, not arms.

Oh, come on! When did the truth ever stand in the way of a good power grab?

Seriously, you are absolutely right. At minimum, that is how they will sell the 'legality' of it to the sheep.

 

[us_agent]

I'm already old and it still matters to me.

Yeah, but what will our future generations think? And if it didn't matter to you, you probably wouldn't be a member here. So thank you Captian Obvious. :>)

 

[jbombelli]

There won't be any gun registration database that has any of MY guns' serial numbers in it.

 

[downzero]

There won't be any gun registration database that has any of MY guns' serial numbers in it.

Oh the irony of this being your post # 4473.

 

[Liberty1911]

Oh the irony of this being your post # 4473.

 

[jbombelli]

Oh the irony of this being your post # 4473.

Rep'd for noticing that.

 

[Bill of Rights]

The "well regulated" language of 2A will be the door that opens almost anything they want to eventually do to gun owners.

I'd argue though that if anyone who understands proper grammar reads 2A, they'd know that it's the militia that is regulated, not arms.

And "well-regulated", as meant when it was written, was defined as "well trained" or "to make regular", as the pendulum on a clock makes it keep time "regularly"... it is "regulated".

The term did not mean anything remotely connected with governmental rules or control.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Prometheus]

Can the Federal government impose gun registration? Is it within their enumerated powers to tell people to register their guns that they already own?

The United States Constitution is 4,543 words long. You can read it in less than half an hour.

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States - Official Text

Short answer? No.

Long answer? Hell No.