Any attempt by any President of the USA to limit gun ownership or propose national registration should prompt anyone with an IQ over 22 to fight. There are maybe 110 million unregistered guns of all types in the USA. I hope it stays that way.
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In Germany, before the Jews and other "undesirables" were rounded up into the camps, gun registration was in place. To quote Aaron Zelman, president of the Jews for the Protection of Firearms Ownership, "If you were to study the Weimar Republic example, you'd see that do-good, feel-good folks felt that if they registered and created a permit system, they could make sure that criminals didn't have guns. The Nazis came to power and took over the registration lists. You can't have confiscation without registration. You have to know where the guns are." Then they passed a law banning those firearms - and came collecting. The people being disarmed, the Nazis started the ghettos and work camps. They did the same thing with the Poles, finding their gun owner registry and confiscating firearms. I would note, however, that Hitler left the Swiss alone. Not by politics, or a respect for their neutrality, but of fear of their citizens - who were all firearms owners, and trained in their use. The prospect against fighting not just an army but every man, woman, and child in Switzerland kept them free, fat, and happy - and enormously prosperous. In 1918, the Communists in the new Soviet Socialist Republics also began a gun-registration plan, and soon came knocking.
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