PackBacker07 said:
We also have a track-able system across state lines where you need to be registered and carry a license for vehicles. Why not guns? There are a lot of facets to this issue, to be sure.
A license is defined as "a permit from an authority to own or use something." Per the Second Amendment to the Constitution, we have the
right to own and carry firearms. You don't need permission from the government to do something that you have the right to do. Otherwise it is not a "right", and is something that the government can deny to you or take away. Concealed-carry permits, by the way, are unconstitutional for this simple reason.
And requiring registration to own a firearm would only be done for the purpose of future confiscation of firearms, taxation, or some other form of control. The primary reason for registration of a car is so that the government can tax people for the ownership of their property. And government should not be taxing, controlling, or confiscating our firearms.
The government has no right to force people to disclose if they own a firearm or how many. They also don't have the right to tax people for the property they own, but that's another subject. Forced registration of firearms would effectively be a violation of the 4th Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
And we already have de-facto registration of firearms, in part. It has been exposed that the Federal government is keeping databases of firearm owners and the guns they own. They are supposed to destroy the records of background checks after a certain period of time (~3 years?), but they are keeping that information in violation of the law.
Background checks are also a violation of the Second Amendment. Everyone has the right to own and carry firearms. The only way you should be denied your right to own a firearm is if you are convicted of a crime and are serving a prison sentence -- ie,
currently inside the prison. Once you are released from prison, you theoretically have "paid your debt to society" and "no longer deemed a threat to society", and you should be able to defend yourself by owning firearms just like everyone else.