No, it's not a valid concern unless you're a gun thief. Firearms-related activities seem to attract a fringe element with a heavy dose of paranoia. Don't let them alter your natural mode of dealing with the other inhabitants of this little planet.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -- The Buddha

Well, you cleared up one thing for me!

Bad as the gun climate is here in CA, I'd never move to PA!!!

I need to lead with the fact that I am extremely pro-law enforcement, but we've all seen how police - given the current SWAT team fixation - enter a home when the occupant may be "armed and dangerous". Fine if it's Sammy Slimeball, but they don't always get the right house!

Here in PA, our stolen gun percentage has almost disappeared. In the case of Private to Private transactions, the seller and buyer need to be present at an FFL dealer to re-register the firearm to the buyer. Its a pain, but it protects the buyer as well as the seller in terms of someone say, performing an armed robbery with a firearm previously owned by a honest gun owner.

I as well am pro- law enforcement. Being a prior marine, I am for gun control and the registry for any and all arms.

my grandfather was a Police Officer that died in the line of duty by a simple B&E call where the firearm was legally obtained but not registered. It was taken by the perpretrator from the gun owner and used to kill my Grandfather. I assume if the police knew the firearms that were in that house my grandfather wouldnt have gone to the door alone.

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I can only imagine that all the multi-hued unicorns flying overhead are quite colorful and lovely.

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Unless the parties have a criminal record - in which case the firearm changes hands with no record at all.  Mysteriously the correlation of "criminal" and "illegal" transaction seems to be quite high.

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I'm all for the mandatory registration of keyboards.  I think that posting on the internet is a privilege, not a right, and that you should have to go through a very thorough background check, complete with prints, psychological evaluation, and, indeed, a very comprehensive rectal examination.  Yearly. I mean, people post things on the internet which aren't safe for children to view.  We must protect the children mustn't we?  I don't think that common-sense registration of keyboards, and the marginally inconvenient items listed, are too much to ask of law-abiding citizens.

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My aunt was shot by a cop with his service revolver.  In your scheme that revolver would have been registered by my aunt wouldn't be any less dead.

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Or they could do what they do in the rest of the country - assume the people aren't defenseless.  An ax hurts.  In England they're registered.  Move