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In reply to the discussion: "This Is What a Gun Control March on Washington Looks Like" [View all]bobclark86
(1,415 posts)The bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.150:
It's been written for months, and now it's been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. It focuses on "assault weapons" and not handguns.
On to your other point... You said: "I'm not aware of any proposals to take existing firearms out of the hands of their owners, only to prevent further proliferation."
You also said this two posts ago: "That said, I can see us ending up with a ban on any firearm with a detachable magazine, as per Recursion's suggestion."
While no "official" has made a proposal, people still need to think about the repercussions of their ideas. The "ban on any firearms with a detachable magazine" is either a) going to seize several hundred million firearms at a cost in the 12-figure range, or b) leave them in circulation, as there is no way to trace them now, and give the legislation no teeth. Which is it?