How insane is it that you could own a deadly machine like an AR-15 and not need to register it?

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196. The first segment didn't "summarize" how it was done.

It simply claimed results without explaining how they were obtained.

The 36-page screed is a lot of the same old crap about how so many crime guns can be traced back to a few dealerships, with the insinuation that these dealers are somehow "rogue" when the simple fact is that they are the largest dealers, period. Also, there is state preemption of gun registration in Illinois, so obviously these traces were done without benefit of your pet project, gun registration. The article calls for registration, but it isn't clear how or why this would help, since the registration trail goes cold once the gun passes from legal to illegal possession.

I might ask if you even read the full article. And before you leave, and without subjecting us to another barrage of irrelevant documents, could you please explain, in layman's terms, exactly how you envision gun registration working to solve crimes?