Lost or stolen firearms: a backdoor to registration.  The lost
or stolen firearms bills and “gun show loophole” laws are not
only an unnecessary imposition on gun owners, making it harder
for people to be a law abiding gun owner. They are also a
backdoor, and/or a steppingstone to gun registration. When you
have such laws in place, along with the trace data for sales,
the system is there to trace a legally owned firearm in a manner
similar to a registration scheme. As history has shown us,
confiscations are directly preceded by registration, which
allows the government to find weapons that are not turned over.
If that day ever comes in the U.S., some gun owners I know have
said that they could claim that their weapons were stolen, and
currently a claim to have sold or otherwise transfered the guns
would be impossible to disprove. With a lost or stolen law, a
gun owner that claims their guns were stolen could be sent to
prison for not reporting that, and by closing the sale of
private property “loophole,” all