Every time you fill out back ground check paperwork for a gun and then get approved for purchase......you are registered. Electronic information is free for anyone to access it seems these days. Online equals Open.
For buying new, sure. As PG said, good luck finding those guns i bought new...and all my others were lost in a boating accident.
Really my point is that there isnt suppose to be a registry. I "believe" federal law says there isnt suppose to be a registry.
Background check and NICS to keep out of hands of felons? Yes. But those records are to be destroyed.
So its interesting when they say registered!