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In reply to the discussion: What if instead of a gun-owner-registry, there were a national gun-registry? [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,303 posts)83. That's because all land is purchased in a legal deed concept called "Fee Simple".
In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. It is the way that real estate is owned in common law countries, and is the highest ownership interest possible that can be had in real property. Allodial title is reserved to governments under a civil law structure. Fee simple ownership represents an ownership interest in real property, though it is limited by government powers of taxation, compulsory purchase, police power, and escheat, and it could also be limited further by certain encumbrances or conditions in the deed, such as, for example, a condition that required the land to be used as a public park, with a reversion interest in the grantor if the condition fails; this is a fee simple conditional.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple
Police and search rights are limited further in the United States by the 4th Amendment.
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What if instead of a gun-owner-registry, there were a national gun-registry? [View all]
DetlefK
Jan 2016
OP
Which has squat to do with them opposing registration due to privacy concerns. eom.
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#87
That's because all land is purchased in a legal deed concept called "Fee Simple".
NutmegYankee
Jan 2016
#83
But acts of gun violence are exceedingly rare compared to the number guns and gun owners
hack89
Jan 2016
#62
So the Feds ignore heroin, cocaine and meth but will come down hard because of automatic weapons?
hack89
Jan 2016
#68
Why can't the Feds come down hard on the cartels and drug gangs using semi-automatic weapons?
hack89
Jan 2016
#69
My post was in response to your comments regarding Adam Lanza & Nancy Lanza ONLY
Lurks Often
Jan 2016
#106