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cb1000rider wrote:

AndyC wrote:Silly darn idea, just begging to be abused.

Explain how it can be abused as a read-only database?

Explain how exactly you are going to ensure that the state maintains that database correctly? Explain exactly how if two digits are transposed or some sausage fingered bureaucrat enters the wrong data and some poor innocent citizen suffers the consequences what is their recourse?

I can see lots of problems and I am sure there could be many more that we can not come up with here.

Like I said, when you give the government permission to do something they will eventually use it against you. This is one of the truths of government.

Be careful for what you ask for.

cb1000rider wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote: If more government is the answer it is a bad idea. Whatever permissions you give to the government they will eventually use it on you. Opening up a database to allow private transfers to see if a firearm is stolen is a small step towards requiring all sales go through FFL and background check. This is what the antis want.

I don't see it as more government, I see it as more transparency.
No requirement changes. No doc changes. Just the ability to check a serial number, like we can for vehicles.

You trust government more than I do. Transparent government is an oxymoron.

cb1000rider wrote:

bayouhazard wrote: Trivial for the antis to randomly add guns that aren't stolen.

Not a database that anyone can modify. Not wikipedia. Think about the same concept as the sex offender registry. You and I can read from it, but we can't add people...

If more government is the answer it is a bad idea. Whatever permissions you give to the government they will eventually use it on you. Opening up a database to allow private transfers to see if a firearm is stolen is a small step towards requiring all sales go through FFL and background check. This is what the antis want.