Hands Up and Nobody Gets Hurt!

I've written before numerous times about the lunacy of permitting the government, either local or Federal, to know what firearms you might possess.  

Why?

First of all, it's none of their business.  Secondly, you might recall a little storm called Katrina?  It displaced more than 500,000 people from their homes that fateful day back in August, 2005.  And on August 24th, the very next day, Henry Lee, the Sheriff of New Orleans Parrish, gets in his little rowboat and begins to go house-by-house to every citizen's home who'd registered a firearm.  Oh, and he sent every one of his deputies out on other boats to do the same.  Each of them were dispatched to confiscate firearms.  Not to stop crime, which was rampant.  Not to save lives, which were being lost by the thousands.  Not to rescue citizens, who were in peril.  But to...  

           ...Confiscate Firearms.  

And they did.  Every single one.

How's that for gun control?  Just when you need one the most, the Long Arm of the Law comes to your house to grab it.  To take it from you, physically.  Is there another, better reason for not permitting the authorities to know if you have a firearm?  And then, if you do, which ones you might possess?    

And BTW, the whole principle behind "Universal Background Check" legislation those on the Looney Left keep on clamoring for* is to insure that the State knows what you bought, when you bought it, and where you keep it.  Presumably so they'll know where to go when it's time to confiscate it...

I stopped buying firearms the day that Taxifornia started keeping track of firearms.  That was five years ago.  Of course, knowing that day would come, I'd been fattening up my gun collection for more than a decade prior.  So I didn't need any more.  No, I've got me plenty of those life-saving firearms.  Oh yeah, and ammo, too!  Thousands of rounds.  Tens of thousands of rounds!  Lots and lots...  

Call me prescient.  Oh, and able to defend myself...

*  Our current background check laws, which have been in effect since 1998, require that the Form 4453 you filled out when you bought your firearm must be destroyed by the State within 30 days.  "Universal Background Check" legislation the "Progressives" want requires that information to be kept forever.  Like it now is in CA, and NY, and MD, and IL, and MA, and WA, and OR, and, and, and...