[kiryandil]

It will start out with a national registration program. With that registration will come a registration tax, just like your car. Every year you will have to renew your registration and pay the tax. The tax will gradually increase. It will initially be small, maybe $50. Most gun owners, being law-abiding citizens will comply. Then, each year the registration fees will increase until a majority of gun owners can’t afford to pay the fee each year.

They already pulled that with my house. Now, it's theirs, and I just pay rent on it to them, even though I "technically" own it outright.

I'm thinking not.

[mnehring]

Think about this. The 1923 gun ban put a $200 tax stamp on all the restricted firearms. In 2011 dollars that is $2606. A typical gun owner in Texas with a few hunting rifles, shotguns, pistols could easily have 10 guns. That is a Twenty Six Thousand dollar tax bill each year just for the ‘right’ to own his guns. (and for many I know, 10 is just the number under the bed).

That kind of bill creates either a criminal or a disarmed citizen.