Really? We have seen governments turn far uglier even than FedGov at its worst in the USA today. A prerequisite before government can oppress the people without restriction is licensing and registration that allows government thugs to disarm the citizenry. One of the most unchristian things we could do would be to permit this sort of registration, knowing that the only purpose of such government tracking of all weapons would be confiscation and stomping out all resistance to future tyranny. The number of innocents who die because of a disarmed citizenry is far higher than the numbers who die from morons who store/use their firearms in an unsafe manner. A Christian has a moral obligation to prevent those deaths.
“. . . Perhaps instead Christians might choose to lay aside their rights and even the pleasure they get from hunting in order to see fewer people die.”
Shut up, you preachy arrogant Brit! Hope your disdain for armed Christians holds you in good stead whenever some “Asians” have you cornered in a dark alley.