Here in Michigan, they put up with it in the 1920s because blacks were coming up from the deep south to get jobs in Detroit factories.
And we can't be proper racist piles of feces if we let African Americanes buy handguns, now, can we?
So, by the time I was born, the whole police state system of needing written permission from the cops before you could buy a handgun had been around for about 40 years already. And the racist ***** in Lansing still resist any efforts at getting rid of registration.
When I was younger, I really wanted a 12" stainless bull barrel Ruger MKII that a local dealer was selling for $219, but I didn't want it bad enough to go to the sheriff's department and beg them for permission, let alone being forced to register the gun to my name by serial number. Same went for buying any gun new from a dealer on a 4473, I just didn't do it. Used guns and muzzleloaders were good enough for me.
30 years later, I decided I didn't really care what government lists I was on. I'm old enough and cranky enough to miss my freedom more than I'd miss the remaining years of my life. If being on a government list of law abiding handgun permit holders results in some pissant government lackey giving me grief over it some time in the distant future, I'm willing and able to kill said lackey. After decades of carefully flying under the radar so as not to risk tyrannical government attention directed my way, it was a very liberating decision to just say I'll live my life, they can live theirs. If they won't let me live my life, I don't have to let them live theirs.
