Photo Credit: New Jersey Attorney GeneralHow Will They Confiscate Your Guns?
by John A. Sutter
in California
For decades I have heard gun owners claim that the government would never be able to confiscate our firearms because the government would lose too many men. The implication being, of course, that gun owners would actively resist confiscation, even to the point of shooting back. But I believe this thinking is outdated and doesn’t align very well with reality. But before you tell me how big your honor guard in Hell will be when that day comes, let’s think about how the government could really do it.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, the government bans all civilian possession of firearms at the end of this month. Congress passes a total ban and the President cuts his own re-election throat by signing it. Gun owners get some grace period to turn them in, even beyond the deadline, without being charged with a crime. If we use Australia and Britain as examples there will still be a significant number of firearms that are not turned in. Some estimates put the Australian turn-in at less than 25% and the British faired only about 28%. But Australians and the British have long been used to obeying almost every gun control law. Not so the Americans. When laws are passed that we don’t like, we bite. We scratch. We vote. So here we sit after the guns have been collected and the amnesties have run out. Now what? .
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Photo Credit: New Jersey Attorney GeneralMercer and Camden counties are not representative of the whole state. They are however completely chaotic, dangerous, and on their way to being Chicagoesque.
Wouldn’t those turning in the guns in these cases no longer have use of the weapons and were simply looking for a “buyer”? It’s like retirement incentives, those who take the incentives were planning on retiring anyway.
Wouldn’t those turning in the guns in these cases no longer have use of the weapons and were simply looking for a “buyer”? It’s like retirement incentives, those who take the incentives were planning on retiring anyway.
Maybe they are turning in stolen guns or guns used in a crime. Many of these so called buy back programs ask no questions of the person turning in the weapon.