Fifty years? Maybe? Heck, I figure kids who inherit dad's guns will probably turn them in for melting down before then.
(Written a couple of years ago)
No one wants to take your guns away. Today.
The liberals plan to gradually make gun ownership so difficult and expensive that many will give them up. They won’t try outlawing and confiscation because that would result in a shooting war that they could not win.
First, they will outlaw certain types of guns. Any firearm that can accept a detachable magazine will become an “assault weapon”. Your scoped .30-06 deer rifle will become a “sniper rifle”. Your 12 gauge pump shotgun will become a “street sweeper”. They will outlaw “armor piercing” ammunition which will be defined as any bullet that can penetrate soft body armor. That will mean that practically ALL rifle ammunition will be banned. All replacement parts for your firearms will be prohibited from being manufactured or sold. To purchase reloading equipment or components, you will be required to have a license to manufacture ammunition
Then they will institute high capacity magazine bans and prohibitions against transferring them, safe storage requirements, mandatory liability insurance, registration, restrictions on where and how you can carry and use a gun. A violation of any one of them will be a felony that takes away your right to keep and bear arms. They will require expensive and lengthy “safety training” and licensing. All firearms transfers will be required to go through a background check and the current law will be changed so that any agent of the government will have instant access to the database. Having unregistered firearm will be a felony with a severe penalty.
Firearms must be disassembled, so they cannot be “readily assembled” in under some arbitrary time. All firearms must be stored in an expensive, government approved safe and ammunition in a separate safe. The government will be given a list of purchasers of such safes. There will be no warrant spot checks to verify storage requirements and the accuracy of your registered firearms. Alternately, you will be allowed to store your firearms at a government approved facility. When you check your guns out, notice will be sent to the government in case you’re a terrorist or a patriot (both are the same to liberlas) You must account for every round fired.
Then there will be high taxes on ammunition and firearms, background checks before you can buy ammunition or reloading components, universal background checks on firearms, elimination of instant background checks, mandatory waiting periods where the government can delay approval indefinitely where your social media posts will be scrutinized for “troubling” content. If you buy “too much” ammunition or reloading components, it will trigger an automatic red flag to law enforcement where you will have to explain why you need to reload 1000 rounds of 9mm.
They will have secret “no buy” lists that any politician, law enforcement officer, or bureaucrat can add to and no one is allowed to see. There will be with no due process once your name is on it. There will be “red flag laws” where anyone can report you as a “threat” where your firearms can be seized without due process.
There will be a ban on the manufacture of new firearms, except to the government, of course, and a total ban on the transfer of existing firearms, even to relatives in a will.
And don’t forget about “smart guns” which will be ridiculously expensive, unreliable, and easily overridden and defeated to make it possible for the government to disable them remotely. All new firearms will be required to have them and eventually they will require ALL firearms to be retrofitted with them. Which is impossible of course, but anyone caught with a dumb gun will be charged with a felony and jailed.
During all this, your children and grandchildren will be flooded with propaganda that tells them that guns are bad, no one needs guns and that they should rat out family members, neighbors and friends with “illegal” guns and how “good citizens” turn in grandpop’s guns when he dies.
All of this will be done a step at a time with the promise of safety. Their safety. As they sit behind desks in buildings with government-paid, armed security and bulletproof glass and ride around in armored limousines living in the best houses and eating the finest food your money can buy.
By that time, the citizens will be brainwashed into believing that it’s for their own good as the warden slams the doors shut.