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In reply to the discussion: Can we as a party please come up with a better idea than the AWB? [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Mandatory retrofit for millions of rifles?
That's already the law in Califonia and the San Bernadino terrorist couple simply ignored the law and modified the guns anyway- because if your bent on killing people a law about what parts you can use isn't a concern.
There are plans online now for 3D printing your own magazines and every part can be printed but the spring, so the plans include a printable form that you wrap spring wire around and make the spring. Literally anybody can make magazines at home now, so no law can stop anyone who wants one.
None of these measures will have any real effect- much like the continued clamping down on doctors and patients and pharmacists doesn't have any real effect on prescription drug abuse but just makes life harder for those working in health care and who are lawful users.
With both the most effective approach is to focus not on the item being abused- be it guns or prescription drugs- and hassle all the people breaking no laws but to focus on the abusers of the items and work first toward mitigating the circumstances and influences that lead them down that path and failing to divert them provide proper and timely intervention however that is needed.