Washington Post: The Purpose of Gun Registration is Gun Confiscation

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-

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There was a recent domestic shooting in Maryland. The presumed perpetrator was a federal law enforcement officer. He is reported to have killed his estranged wife and two other people. His wife had a protective order against him in March, and the Federal Protective Service, of which Mr. Tordil was a member, took his service firearm and seven other firearms.
This was in Maryland, which requires handguns to be registered. From the washingtonpost.com:

Sheriff’s deputies can’t be faulted for not knowing about that gun because, thanks to the national gun lobby and the cowardice of Congress, there is no federal database of who owns what guns. Only a handful of states, including Maryland, have registries of varying thoroughness. This case underscores why law enforcement should be able to know whether a person prohibited from possessing guns has surrendered all their firearms.

This is an official Washington Post editorial, not one merely written for the paper.

Consider what the Post is stating. They are stating that the purpose of gun registration is to facilitate the confiscation of firearms. The …Read the Rest

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