Every tyranny starts with "the mandatory registration". Registration has nothing to do with your needs or the needs of other citizens.
Registration is giving any government a reliable list of prospects which government needs to round up first. Once you are registered, you can't hide anymore, and you are tracking yourself for the .gov. and you are paying them for it! Registration can be passed from one regime to another, you did not possibly experience it yet, but my family did.
My grandfather had to register as a Jew and my grandmother had to register as a person living with a Jew when Nazis swallowed the entire Europe. This registration followed them all the way from the Nazism to communism and ultimately led to my grandfather being suicided by the communists in 1950's. First, they have had to give up a piano, then they had to walk in the street, not on the sidewalk, then they were not allowed in parks, then they have lost their business ....You all know the story!!
When you are registering in Massachusetts you are registering as an enemy of the people. You are fingerprinted and harassed by a local police freely. They may or may not licence you. They may also just mail you that your license has expired but they will keep working on it.....As they wish.
You, defending this lunacy, and agreeing with this lunacy, only confirm that you belong here and nowhere else. You have lost the fight and you know it, you just like to keep bringing up idiotic excuses, explaining why this needed to be done, and why those, who did not do it, or who became victims of the clueless process, should suffer consequences. You are helping them to improve the prison you did not build.
History teaches us that we have lost already and we are in the holding pen.