I remember back in 1988? in California when semi-auto rifles were deemed "assault weapons" because of certain cosmetics and to be illegal. The couple people I knew with such a semi-auto did not turn them in nor register them. Guess what? No enforcement. Never heard of any kind of sweep by LEO's nor even any examples made.
Just another useless feel-good gun grab from law-abiding citizens. Who here on Free Republic doesn't read every day some bad guy being deterred from his crime due to a law-abiding person with a gun? I READ SUCH EVERY DAMN DAY ON THIS SITE! In fact, it's become so common, I mostly skip those articles.
Oh, and you liberals, including politicians, tell me exactly when (if ever) the bad guys are going to register their weapons and/or turn them in. You people think because you outlaw guns (the ultimate solution) a black market won't exist? What about the millions of existing guns that won't be turned in? You bleeding-heart liberal/socialists have lost any common sense that you may have had even as a child.
I'm abhorred by the senseless mass killings that occur in our Country, but making good people defenseless will never stop the CRAZIES from doing harm. It's part of the human condition to be a psychopath. All we can do is try to weed them out early on, and defends ourselves against them.
FYI.