Privacy in Arms Should be
a Second Amendment Norm

In the early republic part of the right to keep and bear arms consisted of the right to own arms without a government registration of arms. No registration of arms was known in law until the late 19th century.

Much of the conflict over the right to keep and bear arms has become a conflict over privacy. The most successful playbook in eliminating the right to own weapons in functioning democracies has been to create the power of governments to know what people have what weapons. The strategy has been this:

Claim governments can control crime by controlling who has access to weapons.

Claim to control access to weapons, governments have to know who has weapons.

Require registration of all legal weapons. Any weapons which are not registered are declared illegal.

Slowly or abruptly, such as "during an emergency" confiscate weapons, using the government registration lists. .....