The gun lobby doesn't want a registry of guns, doesn't want the government to know who owns guns. They are adamant about any regulation or collection of data on gun ownership. It is not something that has been well understood by the press. This is on purpose. There is a planned lack of information by law enforcement because the gun lobby does not want a collection of information on this topic.
Cops say that criminals break into houses and steal guns.
Logically, it doesn't make sense that so much crime depends on people breaking into houses one gun at a time. Jeff Sheehy, longtime queer community activist Cops are still busting people for medical marijuana. They've done nothing about changing probable-cause assertions. The dailies also haven't covered the crackdown on sex workers that the mayor has orchestrated. The police have started going after call girls.