We know gun registration is gun confiscation. FDR's AG did his best to disarm AMERICANS!!

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Cummings goes on to denigrate those who claim the natural right to keep and bear arms, because it is outdated:

“And even in the year 1938 we hear the hollow argument of the inalienable right of a person to buy a pistol without leaving any form of identification.”

Later, Cummings lets slip a telling point. The group most in favor of the registration of all handguns in the country is “the press“.
Question: Can you tell me which groups are in favor of the proposal?

Atty. Gen: In the first place, I would list the press of the country.

To his credit, Rex Collier asks the obvious question:

Question: What good does it do, General, to have a large file of guns owned by persons who are not criminals?

Atty. Gen: Simply this. Tomorrow’s supply of guns for the underworld is today in the hands of honest citizens. Under this bill no honest citizen will transfer his weapon without complying with the terms of the statute, and in time the underworld supply of guns, except those secured by theft, will be cut off.
Cummings goes on to say that most guns used in crime are purchased through legitimate channels in 1938. Because criminals will not register their guns, when his subordinates find someone who has an unregistered gun, they can prosecute him, because anyone with an unregistered gun would have to be a criminal. Cummings probably believed what he said. In 2026, his words seem laughably naive.

Today, we know the small number of guns used in criminal homicides are easily obtained on the black market. Substitute weapons are commonly used. Disarming the population leaves the vulnerable at the mercy of the violent.

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