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59. Australia paid A$600 each for the rifles they collected in 1996

They bought back 661k rifles back for that amount, and had to have a 1.7% tax increase to pay for it. The total program cost A$400m.

The US has at least 20x (and probably more like 50x) that amount of AR type rifles in circulation. The $600 price is also over 20 years old, so were looking at a $1000-$1200 average price the government pays for each rifle.

You’re looking at close to $100b just to get semi auto rifles off the streets. And these rifles are statistically the most unlikely to be used in a crime firearms you could possibly pick.

And that doesn’t even begin to cover the cost of catching, convicting, and imprisoning the hundreds of thousands of people that ignore this law.

In 5 days, Trump will do fire someone or insult somebody new, and that will dominate the news cycle, and nobody outside of the families will remember the shooting in Vegas. And they certainly won’t have the political will to raise taxes, implement a buyback, and imprison people who have committed no other crime.