What would happen if there was an App to tell you who was carrying a gun near you?

[NutmegYankee]

201. It's almost never public info.

Very few places require registering and most exempt such records from FOIA requests or explicitly require them to be confidential. One concern is that a listing of addresses may make a theft of the weapons easier since a determined thief would know which house to hit. All they have to do it hit the place when no one is home and they could steal the guns. No safe is unbreakable to a thief skilled in such endeavors.

The other issue was the rather shit headed efforts of some newspapers to publish such info or make it public. No rational person would want to be listed on a database website, with address and such, like a child rapist or sex predator. A significant majority of gun owners oppose registration of firearms simply because they don't trust that information would be wisely used. Once that info is out there, it's out there.

And then there's the issue of right to privacy. Since guns are by law "household property" (like furniture, TVs, dishes, etc) and not "personal property" (like cars or boats), they are not taxable nor required to be listed on forms. My neighbor has no more right to know what firearms I own than I do what kinds of diamond or gold jewelry she owns.