Chicago abolishes gun registry in place since 1968

[Lee-Lee]

160. It can very well be, along with permits to own or purchase

It is all in the implementation, along with the safeguards to prevent abuse or the use of such a requirement to act as a barrier to ownership.

One only has to look at the history here in NC. Anti-gun advocates love the purchase permit system required here for handguns, despite the fact that it is a Jim Crow era law that was expressly written to allow sheriffs enough latitude to "judgement" to deny minorities their rights.

Registries or permit systems that incur undo delays - in some counties here they issue the pistol permits on the spot, some take 2-3 weeks. A right delayed is a right denied, and doing so requires a person to make 2 trips during what are for most people working hours, missing work, to go get what amount to permission slips to exercise a right. Plus pay $5 per permit, good for only one gun, in a scheme that closely resembles a poll tax scheme in that it places a tax on the exercise of a right.

In addition, you have government officials who will delay paperwork or refuse to fully fund offices managing it, causing undo delays.

One example in NY here:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/legislator_joanie_mahoney_rejects_help_for_pistol_permit_office.html

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney has rejected a request to add a position to the sheriff's department's over-burdened pistol permit office, a county legislator said today.

Kevin Holmquist, who chairs the Onondaga County Legislature's Public Safety Committee, said the sheriff's department needs the position to process a backlog of permits and privacy forms.

"She is inexplicably cutting the request for a full-time position, and I find this very disturbing," said Holmquist, R-East Syracuse.

Holmquist said the backlog to get a permit is more than 18 months. In addition, Sheriff Kevin Walsh has said his office is trying to process about 15,000 requests from pistol permit holders to keep their names from being released to the public.

An 18 month delay for a permit, and government officials who refuse to act to correct the issue, is simply an unacceptable barrier on the exercise of a right. Period.

But there are many on the anti-gun side who has as their goal the implementation of as many hurdles to gun ownership as possible, such as these, in the guise of "safety" but in reality to make buying a gun so difficult as to discourage it. It is essentially the exact same tactics the rethugs are using here in NC to stifle the votes of young people and minorities. And just as despicable.