Here is where you and I couldn't be farther apart. Owning a gun is a right affirmed to me by the Second Amendment - unfettered, to use a recently overused word.
IMO, that amendment PRECLUDES the Federal Government from mandating ANYTHING about personal ownership of weapons, even the 1934 NFA and additions in 1964.
As for the states requiring licenses, etc. it is more of local matter and these states at least at some point had the approval of its constituents to do it. I don't like it, but there it is and I have learned to live with it because in my state doesn't screw with you over it. You can bet your bippy Georgia would never get an insurance requirement mandate passed.
As far as the Fed goes, if they mandate it, I'll ignore it, just like I would any registration requirement. They'll have to come and get them if they can find them.
And I’ll have to respectfully disagree with your assessment.
The Constitution is not the purveyor of Rights. Nor does the 2nd A grant States SQUAT. Either Rights are Inalienable or they are privileges bestowed upon We the People by their gov’t...There is no if, ands or buts.
The simple language of ‘shall not be infringed’ filters down to every Free man, woman and child; regardless of ‘permission from their constituents’. Our Republic, Freedom and Liberty knows NO ‘permission’ bounds; in fact, it is the antithesis of Democracy (majority rule).