5 Reasons to Register Your AR15

Recently, the anti-gun legislature in California passed a laundry list of firearms restrictions that will plow law-abiding citizens into instant criminals. One of those restrictions requires "bullet button" equipped rifles, such every bit the AR15, to be registered equally "assault weapons."  The registration scheme accomplishes several things for the Land.  Beginning, it informs the State that you accept the rifle.  This is something the State may not already know.  Second, it restricts what you can do with that burglarize and opens upwardly the possibility of farther restrictions down the road.  3rd, it creates a database of rifles and rifle owners that tin can be used in the future to confiscate those rifles.  It's very difficult for government thugs to confiscate something if they don't know who has it and where it is.  Fourth, it brings the Country money in the form of fees.

With that bit of background in place, it should come up as no surprise that hardly a 24-hour interval goes by without somebody asking me this question, "Should I register my AR15?"  Well… right out of the gate, my elementary ane word answer is, NO!  There is no compelling reason for a government to register firearms except every bit a necessary pace toward confiscating them.  We have seen this same progression in other countries, such as Australia and England.  There is no reason to believe that anti-gun government officials volition act whatever differently here in the United States.  If they know you have it, they will do whatever they can to deprive yous of it.

Now that I've cleared the air on that, I'll explicate the other reasons why I do not program to register my AR15.   Correct abroad, I have to acknowledge that the authorities already knows I own an AR15, regardless of whether I choose to register it.  I'thousand the host of an internet show and I've produced videos using my burglarize.  I've also admitted to owning the rifle on this blog.   And then, why not merely register it?  After all, the authorities already knows that I have it.  If they don't, they could easily figure it out.  Nonetheless, I really accept some good reasons for not registering my rifle.  Here they are:

  1.  In that location are currently legal ways to avoid having to register the burglarize.  Among them are: move the rifle out of the state of California; and change the rifle and so as to render information technology "featureless" nether California law.  It is my understanding that a "featureless" rifle is not considered an assault weapon in California and does not need to be registered.  It also doesn't crave a "bullet button."  All I have to do to return the burglarize "featureless" is replace the collapsible stock with a straight one, supercede the flash hider with a muzzle break, and install a "fin" on the grip.  Information technology won't look every bit cool, but information technology will work simply as well.   Once the burglarize is "featureless" I can too install a regular magazine release and ditch the bullet push.  That'due south an added bonus.
  2. Once the rifle is registered, California volition place additional restrictions upon it.  For case: I will no longer be able to sell the rifle, give information technology to a family unit member or volition it to my children or grandchildren in the State of California.
  3. If I choose to move the rifle out of California at some later date, I don't want to exist grilled past California gun Nazis who want to know where I took it.
  4. Likewise, if the federal government should regulate AR15s at some point in the future, I would prefer that California be unable to provide the federal authorities with a database that includes my proper name and the particulars of my rifle.
  5. I don't desire to pay the fee.  California already taxes and fees me to death.  I prefer not to pay any more fees than I already do.

While I cannot and volition non recommend that anyone break the police, I am firmly of the belief that the government has no demand to know what firearms are endemic by honest citizens.  I also object to the do of legislators passing restrictive laws from which they themselves are exempt.  Just tyrants practice such things.  Therefore, every bit long as there are legal alternatives to registration, I volition urge people to seek those alternatives.  Which brings me back to my one discussion answer expressed to a higher place.  Should you register your AR15?  NO!