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...

Albert Einstein said--

"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives."

Stringy Thingies!

Not Yours To Give

In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose.--Horatio Bunce to Col. Davy Crockett

Glenn St. Charles, R.I.P

More about his life, here.

Schrodinger had more than a cat:

"Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in
the singular. How does the idea of plurality (emphatically
opposed by the Upanishad writers) arise at all? .... the
only possible alternative is simply to keep the immediate
experience that consciousness is a singular of which the
plural is unkown; that there *is* only one thing and that
what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different
aspects of this one thing produced by deception (the Indian
maya) - in much the same way Gaurisankar and Mt Everest turn
out to be the same peak seen from different valleys."

- E. Schrodinger, "What is Life"

Delve deeper into music and become more of an engineering and math geek, such is life, for me anyway.

Have a song:

Wonder what it would be like to be squeamish

P-- "Authorities say three children were found shot to death and a man was found wounded at a suburban Houston apartment complex."
Tom-- did they donate the meat to the homeless shelter?
P-- best use of handguns i can come up with, kids are annoying at times
Tom--Doesn't say? Waste of protein!

I am a pathologists son. No doubt about it.