Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco has developed a comprensive gun control law that, among other things, requires everyone with a gun to register it with the government, apparently via their local police, and (oh my) be fingerprinted at the same time.
John Hindraker at PowerLine thinks, reasonably, that her little law has no chance to pass the Senate (too many Democrat senators in Red States would be risking having to find a real job) and if it did, it would never pass the House, where there are too many conservative Republicans.
Moreover, there’s the not inconsiderable problem of getting gun owners to own up to how many guns they own and turn up to register them. Heh. Small chance of that, I say, even if the local police had the money or the manpower to carry it off, especially in gun-happy Texas.
Even those gun owners who might be willing to voluntarily comply (very few would be my guess) would have to think twice after the recent New York newspaper’s privacy-invading stunt of publishing the names, addresses and phone number of all owners of registered guns in their circulation area.
Thus DiFi’s impossible dream really is nothing much to worry about.
UPDATE: Obozo stakes claim as Best Gun Salesman in history when he kinda, sorta claimed he intends to push DiFi’s dream through Congress despite some anticipated “resistance.”
As Instapundit deadpans: “You don’t know the half of it, Barry.”
MORE: A for-example on what the wannabee gun controllers face is what happened to the newspaper that invaded the privacy of gun owners: they got so many perceived threats they’ve hired armed guards for their office building. Heh.
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