****and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes at government approved sites.***
I believe this was done twice. Once, in 1775, the Brits tried to seize the armory and got shot up.
The second was at Faneuil Hall Boston, the Brits then seized the arms and refused to return them.
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/faneuil-hall
Following the first shots of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, on April 27, the military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and commander-in-chief of all British forces in North America, General Thomas Gage, ordered all firearms owned by the Boston citizenry stored in Faneuil Hall.
On April 27, “1778 fire arms, 634 pistols, 973 bayonets and 38 blunderbusses” were received, properly labeled with the names of the owners, and sorted for storage at Faneuil Hall. Gage promised the weapons would be returned to their owners “at a suitable time”.
Gage feared an attack on Boston was imminent and feared the civilian populace would join in the resistance, confronting him with an inner and outer enemy.
Actually, I believe it was done a third time, too. Did you ever read about Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, KS? You know how he was able to ride through a Kansas town like Exlax through a goose before burning the town to the ground? The local progressive pacifists of the day, that is the town fathers, insisted that all personal firearms be locked up in the town armory.
Guess where the firearms were when the outlaw band made Lawrence into a smoking pile of cinders? You guessed it, still locked up!
If every DemoCrat city in the country makes its subjects lock their guns in a central armory, it’s fine with me. Mexican drug cartels got to eat, same as buzzards.