Registration of weapons suitable for militia would be constitutional as part of militia regulation at the unit level, to assess unit strength and assign duties, but the risk to militia of having detailed reports falling into enemy hands would dictate that only summary reports be made to higher echelons, that do not identify specific weapons or who they belong to. This is actually also the practice in the regular military. In combat, the details of who has which weapons is normally classified, and properly so. The constitutionality involved is that all regulation must be only for militia effectiveness, and never for some vague notion that the people have to be protected from those with weapons.
What is missing from the picture is the duty to keep militia organized, trained, and armed to a level at which they can prevail over any military forces, including our own. If this were done there would be little question of public safety from weapons. When we are all soldiers and all police, criminals and their crimes will tend not to occur in the first place. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
