What's Wrong With Gun Registration?

[Lee-Lee]

47. Registration would be a huge expense and the money would have better impact used elsewhere

Everyone pushes for registration like cars- if you take what the typical state spends per car for such a system and apply it to guns there would be a about a $6,000,000,000 cost per year to maintain a registry.

And, or course, you can't charge gun owners for that because just like a poll tax it would be tossed as an unconstitutional restraint on exercise of a right.

Of course first you need to get all those guns in the database. That would be an effort on par with the census- so figure a $15,000,000,000 cost just like the census if everyone cooperates. Even deep blue states like NY and CT have seen lots of noncompliance with their registration efforts and in all the red states it would be worse.

All that money would be far, far better and more effectively spent on targeted efforts at getting guns out of the hands of criminals, early intervention programs to keep youth out of a life of crime, and far better access to mental health care.

Oh- and one last thing. After all that expense you can't actually require a criminal to register a gun or prosecute them for not doing so- see Haynes Vs US