Just have to hope common sense like that might prevail in Britain. This sort of registration for shotguns came in in the 1990's. Value of lower priced shotguns went down to near nothing as along with the registration came a requirement for secure storeage. There are only two reasons why a Government needs to know what its private citizens own and that is a). To tax aperson on them and b). To be able to confiscate them at a future date should they wish. This happened with our pistols when that (expletive deleted) Tony Blair came to power. I cannot find evidence of one single crime detected through use of gun registration but that is always the reasons given. Lagopus.....