There is No Registration of Firearms In the United States of America

... which is both on purpose, and the way it should be everywhere

Responding to a plea to spread the word, I can hardly come up with a better quick summary than the last 3 paragraphs you will read at the end of the above link.

"There is no need for official background investigations in gun transfers between private individuals. And the background checks through licensed dealers are exactly that—cursory background checks—and the information must be destroyed in 24 hours if the sale is allowed to proceed.

And while you are educating your friends, tell them why they should be afraid of something they seem so readily able to accept—that registration leads to confiscation—and it is our guns that keep us free.

The Second Amendment was not, and was never intended to be a protection of hunting rights, or the right to keep a gun for fun. The Second Amendment was designed by the founding fathers to give the people a way to protect themselves from the founding fathers."