(March 28, 2018 at 3:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Imagine, if you will, a sea change in USians' views on gun ownership, so much so that the Second Amendment is modified to prohibit the manufacture, sale and possession of semi-automatic rifles, fully automatic rifles and semi-automatic shotguns. It isn't a ban on all firearms (you would still be permitted handguns, hunting riles and so forth). Bear in mind that this is a constitutional action, and as such requires the overwhelming support of voters in your country.
Would you comply with the new law and hand over the now-proscribed weapons you own (for the sake of argument, let's assume that the new laws take the form of a 'buy back' scheme, where the government pays you fair market value for the weapons you turn in)?
Boru
I'd think that we the people got suckered if handguns somehow escaped a gun ban, when handguns account for more gun death than all other classes of guns combined, and not even by a little bit.
Personally, I'd be unlikely to comply...I have two firearms that would get rolled up in that ridiculous ban that are worth more than money to me. I'd just put em in the attic and leave them there and go about my shooty, shooty day with all of the others.
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