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Any kind of registration of ANYTHING in the US is a bad idea. Especially at a time where the federal government is openly genocidal towards certain minorities, especially trans people. Having a list of trans people who own guns would be free eats for them if they declared every single one a terrorist or enemy of the state.
A valid concern.
A gun registry wouldn’t list if people are trans or not though. A list of trans people you would get through healthcare and insurance. Changes of a legal name is probably registered somewhere as well. So they would need to cross reference.
If they want to go after trans people individually, they would go for leaders and activists first. They are easily found on social media nowadays. Then go after organized groups.
An individual armed trans person is much less of a concern, than organized groups armed or not.
If there were to be a registry it would have to be in a way that it does not associate a person's face with their ownership, it should be a token that only points that the gun is legal to own.
I personally think that if I was one to put gun control up, I'd start with making handguns harder to own in some manner, or less attractive to steal or use, and starting a mandatory training program for anyone trying to own a firearm ran by both government officials and volunteers, with various training regimen and hard exams to weed out potentially violent individuals. Oh, and also I'd completely disarm the police everywhere like in Europe. Regular cops don't need guns to radar cars in the highway, go to someone's house to take notes on a burglary that they'll lose later, or respond to an autistic kid having a meltdown.
Interesting idea