A National "Not It" List

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The NRA fight adamantly against a national gun registry because they believe it's an infringement of privacy. They seem to be successful in blocking any attempt at passing such a law. We can have a voluntary registry, but it's tough to get people to go sign up if there's no benefit in them doing so.

But what if we create a national "not it" registry to indicate that you no longer own the gun? That way it's not up to you to register, but up to the previous owner to deregister. A gun manufacture can say that these batch of guns have been sold to this dealer thereby relieving themselves of questioning if the guns were used in a crime. This is voluntary, but if there's no record of a transfer, then they're the first line of questioning if the guns are used in a crime. When the dealer sells a gun, he can also register and say who owns the guns now. He can say "f**k you, I'm not going to register anyone," and that's fine. Except that if a gun is used and he's the last owner then the police can come and question him. The same line of logic applies to personal transfers.

This would essentially help create a national registry, except the effort would be shifted to the people who would benefit from taking action rather than the new gun owner.

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new zealand and canada scrapped their long gun registry as being a completely useless waste of money. it did absolutely nothing but cost a large fortune. it actually became a hackers shopping list for guns. there were hundreds of breaches and over 340 are still unsolved.

a list of serial numbers cannot solve or prevent crime. it's stupid to think it can.

canada still has a handgun registry. it has been in place since the 1930s. but most crimes are committed with handguns. so it's also useless.

lists do nothing.

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Google sheets

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