High school shooting in Parkland FL

[The Grand Nudger]

 Gun confiscation is not a viable solution and creates a problem many many times the magnitude of what you are trying to solve. Mental health care and mental health screening is the solution.  It's easier, cheaper, more politically viable. You can get many gun owners on board with it. It wont cause a terrible bloodbath.

An amnesty buyback directly based on the models in the FBI's public TTC report would be a better idea.  Start buying all the pistols beyond 2006, make a special case fore ar-15's (but if you really wanted to reduce paramilitary gear ak's are what you'd need to target).  The average black market value of a firearm is..usually, less than half of it's maintained depreciated value (if the firearms had been kept in armory for purposes of sale).  Crime can be priced right out of guns.  We know from the ttc that crime is overwhelmingly committed by guns at least seven years old, with two state to state transfers.  Essentially, they sit in stock as new models a bit like cars...at some point, a secondary retailer picks them up.   There they sit on those shelves.  They sit, depreciating, until someone needs to make a desperation sale.  Eventually, they're purchased...and from there they p2p their way in the pool.  

If the buyback incentive provides a greater return than the 3rd hand p2p, transfer owners looking to liquidate their firearms to cash will take that option.  Further, those who already traffic in firearms will take the percentage in trade for the hassle of dealing with fucking criminals.  This will drastically reduce the amount of guns that end up on the ttc.  We'd need to do this even if we closed the p2p loophole...because people will still sell their guns, regardless of the law.  Effectively closing the p2p (by requiring background checks, for example) and instituting a rolling buyback  starting with older pistols and paramilitary rifles, is the way to reduce the amount of relevant firearms in circulation and use.  

I agree that boots on the ground confiscating is the worst conceivable idea.  I've done it before.  It escalates quickly.  It's not really an issue of whether or not it could be done.  OFC it could, militia men are a non issue - it's the fuckin logistics of the thing that get nightmarish.  Guns move.  Guns hide.  When they dig a position in the ground and return fire it's relatively easy to confiscate them..being condensed into a small area with insufficient defense (relative to the options a state funded reaction force can leverage).  What's worse than a militia are the people who either sympathize or become radicalized by the example of those seizures..however peaceful or violent.  Then you have the odd pop shot from a third floor.  You never find the fucker.  Nobody is gonna send little Timmy to jail just because he flung a round at the stormtroopers.........trust me, lol.