Javascript is either disabled or not supported by this browser. Javascript is either disabled or not supported by this browser. This page may not appear properly. The edicts take effect January 1, 2000.
Many people oppose registration because it precedes confiscation.
Indeed it does, as those who were foolish enough to register their SKS's are now discovering. However, that is a practical reason to oppose registration, not a legal reason. And while avoiding confiscation is tangentially a moral reason to oppose registration, neither is it a legal reason. Refusing to obey a law because of what might happen or what has happened in other cases will not stand up in court. But there is a reason not to register or turn in any firearm that is practical, moral, and legal.