----- 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.
