You make some excellent points in connecting the dots here.
Keep in mind that Universal background check are Unconstitutional for three reasons:
1). They are outside the purview of the Federal government’s Constitutionally enumerated powers.
[How can a sale between friends in one state be ‘interstate commerce’?
2). They are an unconstitutional prior restraint on 2nd amendment.
[They are imposing a penalty and a punishment before you can exercise a God-given and Constitutionally affirmed right]
3). AND They are an Infringement on the right of the People to keep and bear arms.
Bottom line: Registration is the Holy grail for the gun grabbers – once they have lists of who has guns, they will come up with a sorts of nefarious schemes to exploit those lists – everything for taxing guns to harassing people for how they are stored. Who know what kinds of abuse that will entail?
I would suggest that we simply use our own terms for this discussion – as you suggested, instead of using those innocuous sounding phrases, we use your term: “Universal Firearms Registration”
The Gun Control Debate
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd03/heller-gun-control-debate.htm
Thanks for the bump and the kind words.