Is the Brady Background Check De Facto Registration?

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Poll question: Is the Brady Background Check De Facto Registration?

You know, one argument I don't hear very often against the idea of "universal" background checks (e.g., closing the gun-show/private-party "loophole") is the effect it may have on privacy. Even though the government can't currently keep track of who buys what guns (except from demanding to see FFL records from time to time) its not implausible for it to know WHO owns at least one gun, based on whether or not they've ever been run through a Brady background check. It's not gun registration as much as it is gun-OWNER registration. But of course, the government is supposed to destroy those records after 90 days from the check...

While its currently possible to avoid being subjected to government scrutiny by only buying firearms through private-parties, if the government ever banned paperless private-party sales and demanded everyone go through a dealer and/or be checked, the government would have a rough list of who all the law-abiding gun-owners were, even without registration of each gun. This could be very handy if it ever came down to door-to-door searches of suspected gun-owners some dark future day when the 2nd and 4th Amendments were suspended, perhaps due to some manufactured "emergency" or general martial law situation in which the Bill of Rights was cast aside.

How do you weigh in?