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In reply to the discussion: Step 1: ban the manufacture of handguns [View all]-none
(1,884 posts)80. Register every gun.
Make a home made gun? Get a permit for it first, then after you make it, take it and the permit to a federally registered gun shop/gun smith and register it and get a serial number stamped on it. No serial number and get caught in public with? That is a felony. At the time of registering it, have it checked for safety too.
There are currently too many people that have guns that should not be having them. Where do they often get them? From the people that supposedly are the good guys that can pass the background check. Make gun harder to get and the good guys will be less inclined to sell/give theirs away.
There are lots of ways to help get our excess gun problem under control. This is but one.
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"OMG! We're limited to a maximum of 250 million guns!!! That's an 'effective ban'!!!!
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#13
So, as soon as the number of guns dips below 250 million you'll lift the restrictions?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#14
Nope. At the point at which gun stores run out of guns to sell, though,
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#16
Neither you or anyone else is the arbitrator of what other people need.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#22
You want to ban guns, you just lack the courage and integrity to admit it.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#38
New technology like 3-D printing will be even easier for making guns and ammo at home
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#45
"Anything like this would require nothing short of a door to door search..."
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#67
Step 10: Bundle it all together and call it "The 2nd Amendment Protection Act" -nt
Liberal Veteran
Jun 2015
#33
Your step two made me laugh. We have what are essentially open borders, and 20,000 lbs of cocaine
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2015
#44
"mandatory felony" Hooray our prison industrial complex is already salivating. EOM
Kurska
Jun 2015
#48
Step 3: Buy more guns for the forces being relied upon to accomplish steps #1 & 2, oh wait...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jun 2015
#84
You can't ban the sale of something that is constitutionally protected.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#74
Forget the 2nd amendment, it fails at step 2; wouldn't fly with NAFTA and GATT. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2015
#88