Banning certain magazines & clips & ammo AND a buy-back program [View all]

[Honeycombe8]

One of the problems with an assault weapon ban is that it doesn't get at semi-automatics AND at the assault weapons already bought and sold. Those guns will be here forever.

A poster here on DU a few days ago brought up the idea of banning those big magazines/clips. Since then, I've heard it mentioned on TV a few times. That seems like a great idea to address the semi-automatics and the assault weapons that are out in the public.

Also, I read somewhere that some country or city did a buy-back program, where it offered to buy guns from the public. It was pretty successful and got a lot of guns off the street.

Assault weapons being banned is a logical thing to do, and necessary. Those have no business being owned by non-military or law enforcement people. But these two other things seem like things that are equally, if not more, important.

Both of these things may not be fought as hard by the NRA-supporters, either. I heard a conservative NRA supporter on tv (I think it was Morning Joe) say that he thought the magazine restriction was at least one thing that made sense to him (he may also have supported the assault weapon ban....I didn't hear his whole interview). As he pointed out, you don't need 30 rounds to hunt.