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The president and others pushing legislation they label a "universal background check" have stated they want and need to be able to track and trace every gun to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
No, it won't work, criminals will get stolen guns on the black market and there will still be criminals and family/friends of criminals with no arrest or legal history who will still do straw purchases and claim later if it comes to that, that the gun was stolen.
The proposals or information about UBC that I have read about all propose that all sales and transfers will have to go through an FFL with the attendant paperwork and that the information on the individual in possession of the firearm as well as the specifics of the gun possessed will from the laws enactment be kept in a national data-base. Some proposals include a requirement that all gun owners register the guns they currently own in a national data-base also, so any future transfers may be tracked.
I also agree that as a practical matter this won't work either as a majority of gun owners will choose not to register their guns or most of them. Much like Canada's attempted long gun registration this will do nothing to prevent violent crime, make criminals of millions of otherwise lawful gun owners, and set the stage for later piecemeal attempts at confiscation. Estimates are that 70 percent of Canadian gun owners refused to register their long guns.
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