“A gun registration is good for two kinds of people: politicians and criminals. Wait, make that one kind of people.”
Does the US Constitution forbid a gun registry? Nothing specifically states a registry could not be put in place, but more importantly, nothing in Article I provides authority for Congress to enact law for such a measure and as such, since there can be no law written to mandate a registry, the Executive Branch is left with no enforcement of it. Yet, a gun registry has been shown in many countries to be used by tyrants to target gun owners. If they know who has the guns, and that is the point of a registry, then they can more easily target those with guns. However, there are other concerns in today’s modern society such as black hat actors and cyber warriors, which have recently hacked the gun registry database in England and that pretty much puts every Englishman who owns a gun in danger.
The Register reports:
The names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been dumped online as a Google Earth-compatible CSV file that pinpoints domestic homes as likely firearm storage locations – a worst-case scenario for victims of the breach.
As an exercise in amplifying a data theft to levels that endanger public safety, the latest evolution of the Guntrader database break-in is likely to become an infosec case study in how security breaches can become worse over time as stolen information is put to ever more intrusive uses.
By TIM BROWN
