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In reply to the discussion: The gigantic logic failure of gun confiscating [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)First, you won't get a law trough the house anytime soon banning ammo, so it's a silly pope dream from the get-go.
Second, hundreds of thousands of people reload ammo, right down to casting their own lead bullets. How exactly are you going to stop that?
Third, if you actually tried to ban ammo it would create a black market that would see ammo brought in just like drugs are now- essentially making sure that the criminal element still had access and only removing access from lawful owners. Anyone who advocates banning ammo needs to explain why it would work when band on drugs clearly don't.
And in the process if you make ammo hard or impossible to get you will get all those moderate or apolitical gun owners mad, and many will run to the NRA and vote for the candidates that pledge to get them their hunting and target shooting ammo back... How many blue and purple states in "flyover country" will that turn red? Do you want to push a few million more people to become NRA members because they are mad when they can't get ammo to go hunting this year and the gun shop owner hands them an NRA application and tells them if they want to hunt they better get political?