Navajo Nation residents may soon have to register their firearms under new bill

By Chris Eger

Legislation recently introduced in the Navajo Tribal Council would require those residing in the nation to register their guns with tribal police.
The bill, 0114-17, would modify the Navajo Nation Code and create the Navajo Nation Firearm Act which, among other clauses, would mandate firearms to be logged in a central registry.
Delegate Davis Filfred, who sponsored the legislation, told the Daily Times he did so “to have better gun control” and accountability for firearms circulating on the nation.
While the Navajo Bill of Rights and Nation Code guarantees a right to keep and bear arms “in a manner in which does not breach or threaten the peace of unlawfully damage or destroy or otherwise infringe upon the property rights of others” it does so with no provision to register firearms in the nation.
The filing would amend this by adding a number of definitions of firearms similar to federal law, then mandating a central firearms registration and transfer record maintained by the Navajo Nation Police Department. The agency would catalog the firearm itself as well as the identification and address of the person in possession of it. Vintage or homemade firearms made after 1898 without serial numbers would have to be serialized to

Source: Guns.com