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 | | The existence of the registration lists enabled police to send out threatening letters to gun owners demanding that they surrender what had been, until that time, their legal property, without compensation. |
 | | Registration lists, in other countries, while produced with perhaps the best intentions, have later been used by tyrannical governments to disarm political opponents or targeted minorities, such as happened with registration lists generated by the Weimar Republic when the Nazis came to power in Germany. |
 | | Detectives at a bombing scene, the theory goes, would use UV light to find the glowing taggants, collect them with a magnet, and read the color-coded layers under a microscope to trace the serial number of the batch of explosive used to make the bomb. |
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