“Out of my cold, dead hands!” you’re shouting.

But consider: thanks to registration, bureaucrats know who holds which guns and how many. So they needn’t “send cops or troops door-to-door to take them. No, first they’ll send out letters saying they know what you have, and that you have to turn it over by a given deadline or face a penalty,” such as “asset freezes. Imagine not being able to get any money out of your bank account or from your credit cards, because your assets are frozen. … The other thing they’ll do is take your children. Do you think Child Protective Services is going to let your children live in a house with potentially dangerous firearms?”