----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Rickershauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: [inbox] Q: on modes of Constitional registering of guns


> If it were decided that gun registration was not a violation of the
Constitution,
> wouldn't that registration have to be free to the individual (as voting
registration
> is) and not fee based (as automobile registration is)?
>
>   --jcr

Sure, because mandatory registration isn't primarily for the benefit of the
gun
owner, but the society as a whole.  This is also the argument for why
background
checks should be funded by the government.  The society is the beneficiary
of
background checks, not the person buying the gun.

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