'If President Obama orders registration of guns, I will disregard it' — Indiana sheriff

Guns for sale are displayed in Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg, Oregon, on Oct. 3, 2015, two days after the rampage at the Umpqua Community College that led to the death of 10 people including the gunman. Reuters

An Indiana sheriff has vowed that in case President Barack Obama orders a registration of firearms, he will not comply.

"In fact if President Obama today said, 'I'm creating an executive order that all sheriffs and police chiefs around this nation need to start registering firearms,' I will disregard it," said Sheriff Brad Rogers of Elkhart County on WNIT's "Politically Speaking," according to Info Wars.

Rogers is supporting the right of Americans to possess firearms and is opposing gun control.

"We've always had this conversation that we need more reasonable gun control put in place," Rogers. "Well, we have what is reasonable, in my opinion, and in fact it's probably overdone."

His comments were made in the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Oct. 1 in which shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer killed nine people and injured nine others before killing himself.

In the wake of the Oregon killings, Obama said, "We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. How can that be?"

Rogers said county residents should not register their firearms.

"I'm from the government, and I don't think the government has any place in gun registration," Rogers said. "The government shouldn't know who's got weapons ... we've seen in other countries what could happen when the government knows who has what guns."

"And so I always discourage people from ever registering any guns – it's not a law in Indiana, so it's not like I'm asking anyone to break the law. I'm just saying if someone wants to come into the sheriff's office and register their gun I will let them do it – but quite frankly it's not something we push or promote," he said.

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