It is a safety measure to prevent national registration, which, over time, is equivalent to confiscation.
Registration is the same as Confiscation – the only difference is where the guns are stored.
Registration means you need to obtain the government’s permission to own a gun – permission that can be withdrawn at any time.
You can well imagine how they can make Registration and odious process whereby checks of various “watchlists” could be used to deprive you of your ability to get their permission to own a gun and confiscate it on the spot.
As for the gun grabbing ghouls looking to deprive you of your right to buy and sell private property without government interference – well, as you said, that all part of their incremental plan to get to the anti-self-defense zealot’s nirvana of registration.
I’ll be happy to let the government register as long as I can buy any small arm currently or previously used by any military.
It would be a lot harder (probably impossible) to confiscate from a populace armed with 240Bs, M203s, AT-4s and, of course, Ma Deuces.
IMNSHO, the 2nd Ammendment wasn’t about registration, it was about infantry level small arms. If we had the latter, the former would be irrelevant. Since the NRA for years pimped “hunting” and “personal protection” as the purpose for the 2nd Ammendment, we lost the ability to defend the Republic.