But let's look at auto registration:
Imagine gun registration was enacted. You would likely eventually see something like auto registration where:
1. You have to renew frequently to maintain the registry and pay the people who keep it, another tax.
2. You cannot register if you don't have some form of other caveat like gun owners insurance, some training class certificate or other issue that the government can use to force people into compliance on other things some en y like the CDC decides is "good for public health" like inoculations. This becomes an infringement upon the 2nd Amendment. Suddenly you can be denied your rights because you don't comply with peripheral issues, much like auto registration and auto insurance/inspection. You might even have to undergo gun inspection and home inspected to show you have a safe storage location and get random inspections to check that you have trigger locks installed and that the guns aren't accessible to kids. Hey though, that's a good thing because it protects people, right?
3. People who cannot afford the requirements will become illegal, just like people who drive without insurance, with expired registration and inspections are driving illegally. Now you have a situation where you can simply deny these people the right to ever own a gun.
Oh but as long as you can have a different talking point in your posts, it's worth it, right?