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I guess when someone asks the obvious, the gun confiscation crowd gets a little muddled (okay... downright non-responsive) coming up with an answer. The following article asks the question in the headline; but, never gets around to actually answering it.
In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?
The article notes that even some Liberals are questioning the idea of confiscation and the author never provides an answer as to how such a confiscation would effectively work; instead, simply reiterating "guns bad" and throwing out plans to ban or limit or background checks or...
Personally, I think the key is found in this passage buried in the article...
That's just "AR-style" firearms. Even allowing for multiple gun ownership by individuals, once you throw in AK's and all the others generally contained on so-called "assault weapons" lists, it becomes patently obvious where the problem lies; i.e., millions of individuals own an even greater number of millions of so-called "assault weapons." Congress isn't going to authorize anywhere near a 'fair market value' and no politician is going to be too thrilled with the idea of the total cost. In addition, they know that Beto's "they will turn them in" isn't going to work and that Booker's civil penalties won't be sufficiently intimidating to 'force' many gun owners into giving up their guns.
Inevitably, what they are left with is a virtual 'police state,' covert and open resistance, not to mention the optics of Left-Wing politicians standing at a podium screeching, with law enforcement officers, potentially military personnel, and otherwise law-abiding citizens dying in door-to-door efforts.
Registered and heavily regulated? How'd that work out, overall, in New York, California, etc.? As an example...
In California?
While 'ordinary use' might be curtailed (to whatever degree), it appears that even in the Liberal controlled states of New York and California, noncompliance seems to be the order of the day when it comes to just registration. Ultimately, that returns us how a nationwide confiscation would work. In short, there doesn't seem to be an answer or, at least, not one anyone is willing to publicly contemplate.
In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's recent vow to take away people's AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States?...
O'Rourke believes that most people would follow the law and turn their weapons in under his proposal...
Cory Booker has proposed a similar program that would involve civil penalties for those who fail to comply and hand in their AR-15s. They would not be subject to criminal offenses, however...
Chipman [a retired BATFE agent] believes an assault weapon ban should be handled similar to the machine gun rules, requiring they be registered and heavily regulated but not confiscated...
Even some self-identified liberals who own firearms question the legality of gun confiscation and even the practicality...
O'Rourke believes that most people would follow the law and turn their weapons in under his proposal...
Cory Booker has proposed a similar program that would involve civil penalties for those who fail to comply and hand in their AR-15s. They would not be subject to criminal offenses, however...
Chipman [a retired BATFE agent] believes an assault weapon ban should be handled similar to the machine gun rules, requiring they be registered and heavily regulated but not confiscated...
Even some self-identified liberals who own firearms question the legality of gun confiscation and even the practicality...
Personally, I think the key is found in this passage buried in the article...
Of the estimated 16 million AR-style guns that are in circulation, about half of them are owned by current or former members of the military or law enforcement, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Inevitably, what they are left with is a virtual 'police state,' covert and open resistance, not to mention the optics of Left-Wing politicians standing at a podium screeching, with law enforcement officers, potentially military personnel, and otherwise law-abiding citizens dying in door-to-door efforts.
Registered and heavily regulated? How'd that work out, overall, in New York, California, etc.? As an example...
...That data shows massive noncompliance with the assault weapon registration requirement. Based on an estimate from the National Shooting Sports Federation, about 1 million firearms in New York State meet the law’s assault-weapon criteria, but just 44,000 have been registered. That’s a compliance rate of about 4 percent. Capanna said that the high rate of noncompliance with the law could only be interpreted as a large-scale civil disobedience, given the high level of interest and concern about the law on the part of gun owners...
...The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) said the likely registration rate of "bullet-button assault weapons" was only about 3 percent of the total number of firearms in California that fall under the state's latest expansion of its "assault weapons" ban. State documents obtained by the group through freedom of information requests show the Department of Justice approved 6,213 individuals to register 12,519 firearms under the new law by the end of June. It rejected a further 1,373 registration attempts. As of June 30, 2018, 52,443 applications for registration were pending... Using data on gun sales from state records and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the group estimated there were 1.3 million firearms sold in California that would fall under the registration requirements. They estimated an additional half-million home-built firearms fall in the same category...
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