These surveys are useless if they do not give firearms owners the ability to explain their answers. I am against a federal firearms registry, but not because I think it is a bad idea - rather, i oppose it because the government, and any initiative by them which requires a "portal", proprietary software, or any other of the brilliant ideas they usually have, manage to make any roll-out of a new system absolute torture for the end-user, and result in delays, uncertainty, and anxiety for firearms owners who WANT to comply with legal requirements but are forced to work within systems not fit for purpose and run by people who have no interest in helping farmers, sport shooters, and other legal owners.