How about a -real- buyback. Mandatory, say $10,000 per AR-15

[fescuerescue]

Make it a carrot and stick.

$10,000 cash, tax free per weapon if you turn it in.
If caught with it, 10 years in jail.

While this would be expensive, this would be a MASSIVE economic boost and solve the gun problem at the same time.

Those kinda of numbers - would get the gunners attention and cooperation (for the most part)

[Hoyt]

1. Why? Gun-humpers invested in these rifles, and their investment goes bad. A big ZERO

and thought and prayers is all they deserve.

Seriously, I do get what you are saying. But why reward depravity?

[samir.g]

3. This. Fuck them.

No reward for being murderous fools.

[EX500rider]

19. Just how many of the 80 million gun owners are "murderous fools"?

Less then car owners are "murderous DWI fools" I'd say.

[fescuerescue]

8. It's not about reward. It's about practicality

From a constitutional standpoint, we probably have to pay something anyway.

It's about getting something passed that maybe we can't pass otherwise.

Carrot and stick.

[TeamPooka]

12. When they "privatized" gold they paid people market value and confiscated what people tried to hide

from them.

[TeamPooka]

11. this

[Girard442]

2. Make it illegal to transport them on any public property.

Have a short amnesty period where they could be transported to buy-back centers. After that, the only legal alternative would be to call law enforcement officers for a pickup. They can rust in your basement, but you can't sell them or take them to a firing range, a gun show, or for maintenance. Get caught with them in your car, you're screwed.

Not a perfect plan, but doable.

[Wiseman32218]

21. Guns are already illegal on school property, won't help this case at all.

I am waiting to see the rest of the profile on this deranged idiot and whether he purchased everything legally. Until then, I am at a loss for a plan to prevent these tragedies.

[GP6971]

4. Nice idea

but I don't think you'd get many takers from the serious gunners.

[chumpchange]

5. Costly

I'd guess there are upwards of 10 million in civilian hands, and I assure you they are being actively bought every day now with the media drumbeat. So I can see two problems:

- Expen$ive! You are talking about $100 billion. Even for the bloated budgets we have these days that is a spicy meatball.
- I suspect the mandatory part of that would be heavily litigated and it is likely anything mandatory would go down in flames.

I'd also hazard a guess that compliance would be surprisingly low. Personally, the opportunity to turn a $400 firearm into 10 grand of tax free cash would have me leaping to do so. Heck, I'd go buy one of the things just to get the 10 grand.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. How much do they cost in the first place?

Unless it's at least $9,999, hell no! Why should they profit obscenely on a murder weapon?

[fescuerescue]

14. The money isn't the point.

And it's temporary. It gets spent and its gone.

But the weapon is gone forever.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. Unfortunately, the money is the point.

Hell, I'd buy up several of those, given what I've seen of the prices with a quick on-line check. Buy six or seven of them for under a thousand bucks apiece and sell for $10k? What a sweet deal.

[MichMan]

17. Are you going to personally buy them up and destroy them ?

Why wait for any official buyback plan?

You could personally buy them back for $10K each and melt them down.

If the money isn't the point...... why not?

[fescuerescue]

20. Well I have a hard time finding a sitter for the kids

and my HOA is real strict on running a smelter in my backyard.

So that's why I rely on government to provide government services.

[Phoenix61]

7. How did Australia manage to unarm their citizens

As someone else posted, we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just about everything we, as a country are struggling with, some other country has figured out. Imagine what we could be if we picked the best of those.

[Retrotech]

9. Fuck those micro-cocked losers

Turn them in, $10,000 fine, and permanent felon status.

[Canoe52]

15. I assume you mean $10,000 fine if you dont turn them in? Totally agree!

And a felony charge also...hmmm, kinda kinky but I like where you’re going with this.

[EX500rider]

10. What good would that do?

There are literally hundreds of other models and makes of rifles that work exactly the same way as a AR-15.

Not a AR-15:





Etc

[fescuerescue]

13. Include those two

I'm not trying to get caught up in terminology. Save the definitions for another day.

We are talking about AR15, AK47 and similar weapons of that class.

[NickB79]

18. Terminology is what screwed the 1994 AWB

And let people buy millions of AK and AR variants while in effect.

To this day, we have yet to come up with a definition of an assault rifle that either a) the gun makers can't circmvent legally, or b) doesn't inadvertently include millions of guns used for generations by hunters.