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Don, No, I have not. The POINT is that law-abiding owners do NOT commit crimes. REGISTRATION did not make the weapons safe, it was having the kind of owners who WOULD register them that made them safe. Now, a quick brushup on a little known point about registration- do you know that by constitutional law, ANY registration law does not apply to felons? And no, I'm not kidding. Most recent registration laws SPECIFICALLY exclude prohibited persons (those who may not own firearms) from coverage under the law. Laws that fail to exclude felons have been modified to do so by the courts. So that the laws apply ONLY to law-abiding people. Now why, you ask, would anybody pass a law that doesn't cover criminals? Because that is not the purpose of registration laws. Their purpose is the confiscation of firearms. We have seen this now in Chicago and New York city, where registration laws passed years ago with solemn pledges that they would NEVER be used for confiscation were used for EXACTLY that purpose. Now, THERE is some reality for you. -Karl