Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A Federal Firearms Operator's License [View all]Bazinga
(331 posts)You seem to be referring to the process of obtaining a good. I, on the other hand, am referring to the process by which a person demonstrates that they own the good and no one else.
I fully agree that a person can obtain a weapon illegally quite easily (hence the reason for this thread), and that person would then illegally own that weapon. However, when you refer to a title or registry to establish ownership, you are referring to the latter usage. My confusion regarding illegal establishment of ownership can be understood in that context.
Now what I think you want to say, and please correct me if I am wrong, is that you would like a registry of firearms to establish or determine who owns firearms legally and who owns them illegally. I agree that that would be the goal of a registry and the beginning of the debate of whether a registry is justified. However, this is not the purpose of car registry.
Car titles are meant to establish who owns a car, not whether or not it is legal for that person to own it. Registration is entirely different from that, to determine who owns a car so that taxes may be levied on that person. Guns have neither of these issues. There is never a question of "who" owns a gun, only whether or not it is legal for him to do so. Guns also require no taxes to be levied on their owners.
I was neither trying to be obtuse not silly, I was simply trying to demonstrate the differences between car registration and gun registration. Your original argument was that because we register cars we should be able to register guns. I have tried to demonstrate that car registration does not have the same purpose as gun registration, therefore the justification for one is not adequate justification for the other.
I apologize for my verbosity, and I hope I don't end up with the same reputation as jimmytheone, but brevity is not one of my gifts.