I'd love for the NRA to "elope" with the TPers, to someplace in the middle of nowhere ~ and stay there ~ together ~ forever ~ this registry is exactly the kind of moderate regulation that sane people should be demanding! ~ bolding/emphasis below is in original ~ Sooz

NRA Pushing For Elimination Of Crime Spree-Solving Gun Registry
By Zack Beauchamp on Dec 6, 2012 at 4:40 pm

A bill to eliminate Michigan’s state gun registration law is snaking its way through the statehouse, despite clear evidence that the registry was critical to solving a devastating shooting spree.

Michigan law currently requires all gun sales to be registered with state authorities, closing the so-called “gun show loophole” in federal law that allows the massive number of private gun sales to evade the FBI database. The legislation eliminating the state registration law and accompanying gun database, HB 5225, has passed the Michigan House but is currently languishing in the Senate. Governor Rick Snyder (R) has said he will not sign the law. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pressuring the Senate to act and Snyder to change his position before the legislative term ends.

According to a December report by the Detroit Free Press, the state gun database was critical in solving a series of roughly 24 shootings that terrorized drivers on the major I-96 highway:


Both Michigan police and a number of mayors from the state’s major cities oppose the repeal of the gun registry, citing the fact that “tens of thousands of private sales of handguns would take place each year with no paperwork and no questions asked.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/06/1291241/nra-pushing-for-elimination-of-crime-spree-solving-gun-registry/

Perhaps police should refuse to come to the aid of any and all NRA members.

I don't think the NRA's plan is going to fly this time. The rationale for it must be that NRA folks don't want the gov't to be able to hunt them down, once they start the insurrection.