In Ferguson - Guess Who Gets Arrested?

[AtheistCrusader]

185. That's ridiculous and you know it.

NFA registration MASSIVELY decreases the availability. MASSIVELY so.

1. Cost controls; increases the cost of each weapon by $200.
2. Lautenberg amendment compliance. NICS can bypass the LA because domestic violence charges can be local and misdemeanor, and don't get reported to NICS in a timely manner. If a NICS check isn't completed in a timely manner, the sale goes through. NFA background checks require you have your fingerprints collected by local LEO, it is checked against state AND federal databases, and even a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence will torpedo the sale.
3. MORE Lautenberg amendment compliance; with registration via NFA, the police know who to go collect firearms from, and have a list of firearms to collect. Impossible via NICS/currently legal registration entities that pass constitutional muster.
4. Time. NFA checks are background checks, and take time, effectively re-instating waiting periods.
5. The big kahuna; no exceptions. ALL semi-autos must be registered within a legal window, just as the original full-auto weapons had to be registered within the compliance window, or simple possession became a federal felony. That passed constitutional muster. You will take guns out of circulation via that mechanism. People who are ineligible possessors would have to surrender guns, or risk federal prison for simple possession.

It's a huge win, if it can be implemented. Let's look at it another way. Which would upset the NRA more. NFA registration of semi-autos, or say, another 10 round magazine cap. I'll be generous, let's say the mag cap was possession of 10+1, rather than manufacture, as the last ban was manufacture only. Which do you think would cause the NRA to lose it's shit more? Pick one or the other, one WILL be implemented but the NRA gets to choose. I guarantee they pick the mag cap. GUARANTEE. With bells on. If you told Wayne LaPierre you were going to restrict possession of mags to 10 rounds, he'd shit his pants with glee. If you told him you'd extend NFA to all semi-autos, he'd shit out his internal organs. It would MASSIVELY shrink the pool of gun owners and guns in the US. It would shrink the number in circulation, because lots of people would simply do buy-backs, and be done with it and to hell with granpa's gun. Mag cap ban? Hahahah we did that already. Granted it was manufacture only not possession, but all it ended up being was a money recruiting scheme for the NRA. It didn't do shit to crime.

Registration would directly impact crime, and the NFA is a way to do it.

"See: The entire history of the United States as compared to other developed nations."

And that's one area you don't know what you're talking about. This proposal would apply to existing guns, and would closely model control schemes in European nations that have moderate to high gun ownership, and teeny tiny amounts of firearm related crime. Like, single-digit murders per year. Yet they have rifles and silencers and all that jazz.


Anyway, back to deadliness, the previous gen of firearms before the AR's used in mass slaughters of note, were far more deadly. None of our mass killings have been at 500+ yards, save bolt-action stuff like the clocktower shooting, and that was not anything like the mayhem you are rightly concerned about today.