You can be an anonymous gun owner, legally. Here is how this works.

My son-in-law recently had two of his long guns stolen from his vehicle.  “Ja” is a dairyman.  He reported the theft, of course,  and contacted appropriate state officials,  only to find that no record remained for his registered guns.  What follows in this post, is the rest of the story.

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 Daniel Strauss / The Hill: 

Kirk and Manchin don't support Schumer background-check proposal

Discussion: Politico, The Hill and CNN

All that talk with so little comparative support.  I don’t know about you all,  but I think all this panic talk about getting rid of guns is just that,  so much talk,  destined [perhaps] for the rather large bone pile the Harry Reid Senate  has managed to gather, over the past four years.  The defection of Democrats Kirk and Manchin just might be the final blow for a national register.  Time will tell. 

The Case for Creating  Anonymity As A Gun Owner

I own a hand gun,  a semi-automatic rifle,  and two shotguns.  All are registered.  Paperwork for the long guns,  while filed in due time,  no longer exist, however.  Turns out that in the State of California,  such paperwork is destroyed within six months of their receipt,  as a matter of course. 

If you live in California and have registered long guns purchased more than six months ago,  no one knows you own them.  It brings peace to this old man to know that the government simply cannot do a good of record keeping when it has to deal 300 million guns (in this case), and, so,  in this circumstance,  they don't even try.    

The handgun ,  a Glock 19,  is a different matter.  But,  here in California,  you can report your gun as stolen.  Currently,  it is not required by law that you report the return of that gun, which means that your gun can be officially “off record” but,  if used,  sometime after the report,  you are legal.  

The point being that you can work the system to your advantage,  as a gun owner.  When time comes to confiscate your weapons,  no one really knows who owns these guns,  if due diligence is given to remaining legally anonymous.  

My advice:  talk to a local knowledgeable gun dealer.  It is likely that she will know the law.  Understand that none of this information is readily available in the media . . . . . . . . .  they don’t want you to know.