The Enemy Always Accuses Us of "Compensating"

I HAD too! I couldn't help it. Had to go with the shell, because the rifle wouldn't have fit in the picture ;-)

A Picture Worth THOUSANDS of words

From Small Arms Review, November 2010

"Among the many unknown provisions of the national mandatory healthcare law recently passed by Congress is language that will effectively create a natinal federal database of firearms owners...

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Effective January 1, 2012...the national healthcare law requires all firearms dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service al of their firearms purchases and any other goods valued over $600. This reporting requirement applies to purchases made from individuals. IRS 1099 forms will have to be filed in each instance, reporting the purchase by the firearms dealer.

The new regulations apply to all businesses that buy goods from individuals, not just firearms dealers. Thus the law will mandate firearms dealers to send in a 1099 form with the name, address, and presumably the Social Security number of the person that sells them a used gun. This personal identifying information with then be sent to the IRS who could use it to create a national database of firearms owners as most people who own guns usually own several."--Industry News, Robert M Hausman, "Hidden Gun-Owner Registration Scheme Revealed"

Perhaps they gave up on creating a National Registry for non-NFA items, and are taking an end-run with tax law, which would make sense, as the NFA came out of tax law. Register probable owners instead of each firearm.

Firearms laws in the US were written to prevent a registry of "who owned what firearm", excepting NFA items. They weren't written preventing the government compiling a list of probable owners...