Abatis
Council Member
I believe the entire legitimacy of the electoral process depends upon the certainty that only those qualified to vote are permitted to cast ballots. I believe those who intend to exercise their franchise should have their eligibility predetermined and be compelled to prove their identity when casting a ballot.Many think that everyone should produce an document that says the person is registered with the govt in order to exercise their right to vote.
You would be arguing against one of the imperatives that held out any and all power from government to impact in any fashion the right of the people to keep and bear arms . . . To keep in awe those in power; to remind the government that the people, as a general body, have retained and shall forever possess, the means to rescind their consent to be governed.If so then would they agree that this same requirement should apply to exercising an individual's right to posses firearms and ammunition.
To argue that government should have the power to amass a list of all those who possess the means to resist illegitimate government action is an oxymoron of the highest order.
I reject giving government that power without a restoration of a full and complete militia law. Under that constitutionally established legal framework the government is empowered to census enrolled militia members and record the particulars for the single arm that an enrolled member intends furnish himself with, and muster with, to fulfill his militia obligation.Meaning that all firearms and their ammunition in an individual's possession must be able to be matched with record for that person in a federal database.
In 1903 Congress chose to relieve the citizens of all militia obligations (by federalizing the state militias / overriding the militia Act of 1792). In doing so it extinguished any and all legitimate interest that government could be said to possess in the arms possessed by the people.
So, if you would be happy with a very limited database of guns and their civicly responsible owners then you should be lobbying Congress to reinstate a real federal Militia Act that conforms to Art I, § 8, cl's 15 & 16.
Barring that, the government is barred from instituting any such database.