[Warfish]

Originally Posted by long island leprechaun

The point is that I don't have to have a degree in psychology or an advanced weaponry certificate.

Yet you feel qualified to make both a mental health evaluation from afar AND a judgement regarding "weapon stockpiling" AND the purpose of said stockpiling.

Calling in the authorities to investigate means that THEY are making the judgment of imminent harm or risk, not me.

You make it sound like having the police bust down your door en masse on the assumption that you are A. insane and B. in posession of a "stockpile" of firearms is no big deal.

You misunderstood my hypothetical. The neighbor is acting erratically in plain sight.

Define "erraticly" in this circumstance.

Maybe he has Parkinsons? and now you have sent the Police barging through his door. Nice job.

You, in your paranoia, have just sent the SWAT team barging in on a PArkinsons patient who also happens to be a WWII Weapon collector.

I was assuming that I could access a public registry to find out the status of his gun possession, not enter his property.

So you feel you have the right, without any other cause, to break his constitutional right to privacy to feed your own paranoia and noseyness?

That was the crux of the issue... should there be a public registry for all guns... would it have a useful purpose

Yes, it would identify who owns guns, and thus make them a target for those who comit crimes with guns as locations where additional guns can be aquired.

That's it. No house to house searches for insane people, no house to house searches for weapons, no secret police... my goodness, the weird turns this subject takes are really incredible.

Respectfully, I don't think you've thought through the ramifications of the policies you're seemingly in support of, or tha massive number fo presumptions and assumptions you're making in order to placate what is, frankly, just yoru own FEAR of what migth be, not actual cause.

The laws that exist today already cover the vast majority of what you intend, without requiring making every gun owner in America a target for political attack, criminal invasion, or more.