Saying that registering a gun takes your rights away, is like saying that registering a car prevents you from owning or driving a car. Preposterous.
What is the purpose of registering firearms if not to confiscate them later?
Ask Adolph Hitler:
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Under both the 1928 and 1938 acts, gun manufacturers and dealers were required to maintain records about purchasers of guns, with serial numbers. These records were to be delivered to a police authority for inspection at the end of each year.
The 1938
Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons, which came into force the day after
Kristallnacht,
[12][13] effectively deprived all Jews living under Nazi rule of the right to possess any form of weapons, including truncheons, knives, firearms and ammunition. Exceptions were made for Jews and Poles who were foreign nationals under §3 of the act.
[14] Before that, some police forces used the pre-existing "trustworthiness" clause to disarm Jews on the basis that "the Jewish population 'cannot be regarded as trustworthy'".
[9]
On the whole, gun laws were actually made less stringent for German citizens who were loyal to Nazi rule and more restrictive for Jews.
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Registration IS confiscation.
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