This should be standard link sent to your friends who are on the edge of gun control. I highly recommend you watch this video as it is a clear picture of what our concerns are about registration and the results. This act cost 170 million lives in the last century through slaughter of the innocents who were disarmed by their governments.
Unfortunately, for most of the sheeple, it hasn't happened here so it cannot happen here. And anyone who believes differently is just paranoid.
With the "gentleman" in the WH and the "gentlemen" running congress nothing would surprise me. When they pass what ever they want then the sheeple will start braying and baaaaing--like asses and sheep. Then it will be up to the rest to confront the situation.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." CS Lewis