Canada tried long gun registration - and gave up

[baldeagle]

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The bigger lesson of Canada’s experiment, Mauser says, is that gun registration rarely delivers the results proponents expect. In most countries the actual number registered settles out at about a sixth. Germany required registration during the Baader-Meinhof reign of terror in the 1970s, and recorded 3.2 million of the estimated 17 million guns in that country; England tried to register pump-action and semiautomatic shotguns in the 1980s, but only got about 50,000 of the estimated 300,000 such guns stored in homes around the country

Wouldn't it be safe to assume that the results in the US would be even less successful?

[Andrew]

As proven in many studies, gun ownership has nothing to do with crime rates. So registration has but 2 purposes, Taxation or Confiscation. No thinking person could believe that registration provides any value to law enforcement.