How about a -real- buyback. Mandatory, say $10,000 per AR-15

and thought and prayers is all they deserve.

Seriously, I do get what you are saying. But why reward depravity?

No reward for being murderous fools.

Less then car owners are "murderous DWI fools" I'd say.

From a constitutional standpoint, we probably have to pay something anyway.

It's about getting something passed that maybe we can't pass otherwise.

Carrot and stick.

from them.

Have a short amnesty period where they could be transported to buy-back centers. After that, the only legal alternative would be to call law enforcement officers for a pickup. They can rust in your basement, but you can't sell them or take them to a firing range, a gun show, or for maintenance. Get caught with them in your car, you're screwed.

Not a perfect plan, but doable.

I am waiting to see the rest of the profile on this deranged idiot and whether he purchased everything legally. Until then, I am at a loss for a plan to prevent these tragedies.

but I don't think you'd get many takers from the serious gunners.

I'd guess there are upwards of 10 million in civilian hands, and I assure you they are being actively bought every day now with the media drumbeat. So I can see two problems:

- Expen$ive! You are talking about $100 billion. Even for the bloated budgets we have these days that is a spicy meatball.
- I suspect the mandatory part of that would be heavily litigated and it is likely anything mandatory would go down in flames.

I'd also hazard a guess that compliance would be surprisingly low. Personally, the opportunity to turn a $400 firearm into 10 grand of tax free cash would have me leaping to do so. Heck, I'd go buy one of the things just to get the 10 grand.

Unless it's at least $9,999, hell no! Why should they profit obscenely on a murder weapon?

And it's temporary. It gets spent and its gone.

But the weapon is gone forever.

Hell, I'd buy up several of those, given what I've seen of the prices with a quick on-line check. Buy six or seven of them for under a thousand bucks apiece and sell for $10k? What a sweet deal.

Why wait for any official buyback plan?

You could personally buy them back for $10K each and melt them down.

If the money isn't the point...... why not?

and my HOA is real strict on running a smelter in my backyard.

So that's why I rely on government to provide government services.

As someone else posted, we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just about everything we, as a country are struggling with, some other country has figured out. Imagine what we could be if we picked the best of those.

Turn them in, $10,000 fine, and permanent felon status.

And a felony charge also...hmmm, kinda kinky but I like where you’re going with this.

There are literally hundreds of other models and makes of rifles that work exactly the same way as a AR-15.

Not a AR-15:





Etc

I'm not trying to get caught up in terminology. Save the definitions for another day.

We are talking about AR15, AK47 and similar weapons of that class.

And let people buy millions of AK and AR variants while in effect.

To this day, we have yet to come up with a definition of an assault rifle that either a) the gun makers can't circmvent legally, or b) doesn't inadvertently include millions of guns used for generations by hunters.