Confiscation has never been proposed? Hillary did, just a few weeks ago:
http://www.bing.com/search?PC=WCUG&...clinton+proposed+confiscation&conversationid= It would be worth the effort for those who troll and fearmonger on forums to keep up, there's a lot of material for posts lately and some of you are just missing out on it.
As for those who say "They" can simply buy them back with high dollar bounties, it's discussed in another thread. Point is - who is going to sell their $1,100 Colt AR bought during a panic for a few hundred under pain of - what? Again, they have to find it in your possession, which they are not going to bother to do.
NY and CA have required registration of AR's under their AWB laws and over 75% of the owners aren't bothering - because they can't go door to door and prove they didn't. Not to forget the local gun "buybacks." Most are junk and the few worth keeping get sniped by cash flush buyers right in the waiting line. That reality is happening right now, reported in the news - if you bother to read it.
Trotting out examples of confiscation in other countries isn't exactly the best idea - they didn't find all the guns, you know. Take Mexico - illegal to own military caliber firearms, but what do the Cartel gunmen carry? AR15's from Fast and Furious, or stolen from other Central American armories. They even have OUR M16's imported from Vietnam, which the ATF proofed by serial number examination.
When people want guns, they get them. Close the stores, tax ammo out of existence, put a bounty on magazines? Buahahahaha, yer killin me! Stop the insane comments! When has that stopped any human on the face of earth?
It simply goes to the black market and the trade goes on.
You need proof? It's already happening, the shipments of stolen guns to NY and Chicago are the reason why their politicians blame the "lax" states for the problem. People are getting guns in no gun cities and the local authorities can't even keep up.
Another example?
Prohibition. Do you not know that the Kennedy's made their fortune smuggling in alcohol on speedboats all over the East Coast? And today the Cartels do it with all sorts of means, including submarines.
For crying out loud, they are shipping in drugs in SUBMARINES. Somebody's not keeping up with the news, no problem at all to throw a crate of full auto AK's onboard, too. Likely for their own use.
Did California's laws keep the San Bernadino terrorists from getting altered AR15's? Please, stop it with the "Da gummint is so overpowering they can take all our guns away!" The problem is they CAN'T stop them.
Nope, they aren't going to take our guns or buy them. "They" are actually SELLING THEM TO US - thru the CMP. And the latest new item is 100,000 used 1911's, at the rate of 10,000 a year. "They" are going to sell ME - and YOU - a working .45 ACP automatic pistol for my use as I see fit. How is that a government plotting to take them away?
Only in the tortured imagination of some internet posters who are determined to make the government their enemy at any cost to logic or sound thinking. Sorry for you, that kind of post is what Homeland and the ATF tracks, ya know, irrational hatemongering with no basis in reality . . .
