Proponents said the central registry would give law-enforcement agencies a powerful new tool for tracking guns used in crimes.

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Fans say a central registry would make it easier for police to track down weapons used in crimes, and perhaps even make gun owners more responsible.

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Of concern with this approach is that if the central registry is hacked, all the registrars' passwords could be identified and would need to be replaced.

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Much of it has been abandoned and there's no central land registry of ownership.

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The Central Contractor Registry (www.ccr.gov) has it registered as a news syndicate (NAICS code 519110), which is defined by NAICS as establishments who sell information to the news media.

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Robosigning was just an acknowledgement that in a large, modern lending institution only the central computer registry of mortgages contains all the information about loans, and no lawyer at the periphery can possibly possess additional information beyond what is in that registry.

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