> Having a modern up to date, searchable central registry of guns, ownership, and requiring every sale to be recorded is a major advantage for Australia over th

> Having a modern up to date, searchable central registry of guns, ownership, and requiring every sale to be recorded is a major advantage for Australia over the US. Some folks think that having a single, accurate, searchable registry of arms and their owners makes it tremendously easy for the government to confiscate those arms, and consider that a disadvantage. Imagine how a government might misuse a central database of citizens which indicated who belonged to which disfavoured minority groups …