mainly gun control after the Florida school shooting.

How far they will get is beyond me and immaterial. I'm not going to address that here. What I am going to address is the likelihood of the law being obeyed.

If there is some kind of a confiscation of ARs you can bet the government isn't going to see a whole lot of them turned in. Of course, the government might get maybe 2 or 300,000 of them and brag to the public that the whole program is a success but it will be a boldfaced lie about the program being successful when you consider there are more than 30 million of them in circulation.

The last time this subject came up I heard any number of police officers mentioning that they were getting ready to hide theirs. Others said that if they were ordered to collect firearms from people they would just knock on the door and say, "I don't see any guns here." and walk off.

Of course you are going to have Officer Bucky Eager Beaver running around making a big to-do but it's pretty likely the other officers will have a quiet word with him, depending on the department.

Turn-ins don't work and neither do registrations as has been evidenced is a few states. People don't like laws like that and generally either refuse to obey them outright or pay a lip service to them that insults the meanest intelligence.

It will be what it is, a big joke.

Laws only work when people obey them and there are an awful lot of laws that nobody really pays any attention to. I suppose the most common is speeding but if you look at the drug laws they are flouted by people in huge numbers. After all, if people obeyed them there would not be any drug problem.

The truth is that people really only obey the laws they feel are just and they either sidestep or ignore those they don't like. When you have a law that a lot of police officers don't like then they are really not all that interested in enforcing it.


Of course, this generally leads to other things. Prohibition is the example that probably comes to mind. The small handful of honest federal revenue officers that tried to enforce prohibition were really not too successful. The other cops, either because of bribes or the fact that they liked to drink alcoholic beverages tipped off the bootleggers.

Many policemen are firearm enthusiasts and would tend to overlook possession of illegal firearms. Others are not too interested in taking them away because some people tend to get emotional over the issue and all it takes is one to inflict casualties. Cops run enough risks as it is and a lot of them wold not get too interested in risking their hides to enforce a law many would regard as unconstitutional. 

As far as confiscations go, they would most likely be ruled unconstitutional as the Constitution specifies that property can not be arbitrarily confiscated without due compensation. 

In short, bans and confiscations are really not a very good idea.

That would require Congress to raise one hell of a lot of money to pay for so many firearms. I'm not too sure the non firearm owning public would like to hear that. I KNOW that firearm owners would not like it. Most people forget about things like that until they find out that it is the way the system works.

In short, bans and confiscations are really not a very good idea.


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