You , and others, have completely misread my thought about gun registration.
First there would be two databases. One that contained JUST gun information, and one that included gun ownership.
TO access the gun database a government entity would need reason. Say they found a bullet fired from a S&W .40. They could run a comparison and if a match came up they would have access to THAT file.
Similar to the way the national fingerprint database works. If they have my print and are running it for a match the system doesn't identify YOUR print. It only gives them access to the one that matches.
THEN if they found a match they could apply for a warrant for the other database. If they got it THEN they could match up the gun with the registered owner.
Appropriate security measures taken at all times
I'm not talking about a free for all
www.wheretheguns.com where anyone can find out who has what and where.
and I don't trust the government any more than you do, I just unfortunately believe that most people are idiots and so we NEED the government whether we trust them or not.
In an ideal world we wouldn't need any of the enumerated rights to be enumerated. Nor would we need to make murder illegal, for example. But this isn't an ideal world, so let's deal with reality.