rails against gun registration and gun owner databases. PhotoFOR more than 80 years, the United States has enforced a tough and effective gun control law that most Americans have never heard of. In 2008, the organization’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, claimed that photographing and fingerprinting gun owners was “the key gun control scheme” of the candidate Barack Obama, who, Mr. LaPierre predicted, would confiscate every gun in America before the end of his first term as president. The more than four million weapons inventoried — including machine guns, missiles, hand grenades and mortars — are the best example we have of gun control that works. Trade and Collectors Association, says his members have learned to live with gun registration and lose no sleep worrying about confiscation.

Source: New York Times May 31, 2016 07:18 UTC