It had language in it to bar it becoming a registration, too. But that's pie in the sky. The mainstream anti gunners are insisting that anything that does pass will only be a stepping stone. As in, they get a Dem House and Senate, they'd simply pass an amendment changing it to what they really wanted, without all the political turmoil of trying to accomplish a registry and ban first off. Just once, Heck, listen to the extremist lefties in your own party. Feinstein insists that if she could get the votes, she'd ban all guns. Why not figure that she's serious leftwing nutcase? It's exactly as I said to Cysko much earlier - legit work toward a genuine solution? to at least try to stop these crimes goes by the wayside of all the left who want to rail against the NRA and gun owners for having guns. Going after the many millions of LEGIT gun owners does nothing to stop violent nutjobs from committing crimes with guns. No more than outlawing bombs to all legal, responsible citizens, yet the violent nuts still get bombs. Go figure, eh? (and no, don't figure I think we should all be allowed to have bombs, either...)