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14. Your best option is to ban the manufacture all forms of firearms.
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 03:14 PM
Mar 2021

I like your statement, as a RKBA Democrat, I will explain why banning all manufacture of firearms is the only option.

-- ban the import, manufacture and possession of certain types of weapons. Right now, federal law outlaws certain weapons -- machine guns, shoulder-fired rocket launchers and other items that clearly are weapons of war.. We need to add to that the AR-15, AK-47 and similar firearms.

ATF bans import of multiple firearms for non-sporting purposes. please see https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/guide/atf-guidebook-importation-verification-firearms-ammunition-and-implements-war/download
Additionally AR-15 are domestic products not foreign.
-- ban ghost guns and the sale, manufacture and possession of the parts.

Good luck, if you are banning sale, manufacture and possession of the parts, you have effectively done what I stated ban manufacture of all firearms.
-- same ban for high-capacity magazines. My Weatherby and Remington rifles do just fine with 4-round magazines. If you need 20 rounds for deer hunting, you need to take up needlepoint. 10 rounds in a pistol; 5 in a pump or semi-auto shotgun.

Again, just ban manufacture of all firearms and you are done. Don't need to ban high capacity magazines when all magazines are banned.
-- establish a turn-in bounty with a deadline. Turn in your AR-15 to a designated location, receive a check for $750; ditto for other banned weapons and magazines. Establish a 3 or 4 year grace period, after which possession gets a jail sentence.

I had a chuckle at this one. Offering $750 turn in bounty for an AR-15 firearm currently selling for $2300-$3000 from the big manufacturers. $3000 is a good starting point for a turn in bounty. After banning the manufacture of all firearms enacted.

I do not see any of the above happening, Democrats will not win another election after destroying an entire manufacturing sector.
And it would be difficult to win another war after banning the manufacture of all firearms.
Oh and I'm not dancing around the subject, if you are banning for domestic possession, might as well ban law enforcement possession, and federal possession. That includes our military as well.
Because if I am no longer legal to own or possess a firearm, why should law enforcement and military have that capability.
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