5 Reasons to Register Your AR15

Recently, the anti-gun legislature in California passed a laundry listing of firearms restrictions that volition turn law-abiding citizens into instant criminals. One of those restrictions requires "bullet push button" equipped rifles, such equally the AR15, to be registered as "assault weapons."  The registration scheme accomplishes several things for the State.  First, information technology informs the Land that you have the rifle.  This is something the State may non already know.  2nd, it restricts what you lot can exercise with that rifle and opens upwardly the possibility of further restrictions down the route.  Third, it creates a database of rifles and burglarize owners that can be used in the future to confiscate those rifles.  It's very difficult for authorities thugs to confiscate something if they don't know who has information technology and where it is.  Fourth, it brings the State money in the form of fees.

With that bit of background in place, it should come every bit no surprise that hardly a day goes by without somebody asking me this question, "Should I register my AR15?"  Well… right out of the gate, my uncomplicated one give-and-take answer is, NO!  At that place is no compelling reason for a authorities to register firearms except every bit a necessary footstep toward confiscating them.  We have seen this aforementioned progression in other countries, such as Australia and England.  There is no reason to believe that anti-gun authorities officials will act any differently hither in the United States.  If they know you take it, they volition do any they can to deprive yous of information technology.

Now that I've cleared the air on that, I'll explain the other reasons why I do not plan to register my AR15.   Right away, I accept to acknowledge that the government already knows I own an AR15, regardless of whether I choose to register information technology.  I'm the host of an internet show and I've produced videos using my burglarize.  I've too admitted to owning the rifle on this blog.   Then, why non merely register it?  After all, the government already knows that I have it.  If they don't, they could hands effigy it out.  Fifty-fifty so, I actually take some practiced reasons for not registering my rifle.  Here they are:

  1.  There are currently legal ways to avert having to register the rifle.  Among them are: move the rifle out of the land of California; and alter the burglarize so as to render it "featureless" nether California constabulary.  Information technology is my understanding that a "featureless" rifle is not considered an set on weapon in California and does not need to be registered.  It as well doesn't require a "bullet push button."  All I have to do to render the rifle "characterless" is supervene upon the collapsible stock with a direct one, replace the wink hider with a muzzle break, and install a "fin" on the grip.  It won't look as cool, but information technology will work just besides.   Once the burglarize is "featureless" I tin can too install a regular magazine release and ditch the bullet push button.  That's an added bonus.
  2. In one case the burglarize is registered, California will place boosted restrictions upon it.  For instance: I volition no longer be able to sell the rifle, give it to a family member or will it to my children or grandchildren in the State of California.
  3. If I choose to movement the rifle out of California at some later date, I don't want to be grilled by California gun Nazis who want to know where I took information technology.
  4. As well, if the federal government should regulate AR15s at some point in the time to come, I would adopt that California exist unable to provide the federal government with a database that includes my proper name and the particulars of my burglarize.
  5. I don't want to pay the fee.  California already taxes and fees me to decease.  I prefer not to pay whatsoever more fees than I already do.

While I cannot and will not recommend that anyone break the constabulary, I am firmly of the belief that the regime has no demand to know what firearms are owned by honest citizens.  I also object to the practice of legislators passing restrictive laws from which they themselves are exempt.  Only tyrants exercise such things.  Therefore, as long as there are legal alternatives to registration, I will urge people to seek those alternatives.  Which brings me dorsum to my one word answer expressed above.  Should you register your AR15?  NO!