I can get on board with most (probably 90%) of that. I think a lot of that is reasonable and practical.pdub wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:40 am Everything is shut down here.
Schools/daycare. Businesses.
Background checks mandatory, with a week or two waiting period, paid for with a tax on said gun.
Production of newer guns should halt. Any new gun should have zero semi auto/auto capabilities.
Bolt action. Double barrel or break action. Pump. That's it.
Newer guns should be built to prevent modifications - i.e. break the gun.
Max capacities of these guns should be 4 or 5.
No magazines or clips. You have to individually load each round.
Human beings hunted successfully with bows, spears, boomerangs, bolos.
You can manage with 4 shots from a rifle or shotgun.
I'd say the same thing for self defense - if you don't hit with your first one or two shots, you're probably in trouble anyways.
Buy back programs for guns that exist should be promoted. Give a reasonable x amount of years you have to return any gun that is deemed, on the list, as not one of the grandfathered in guns ( that are close to the gun modifications listed above ). After that time period, any gun not on the list is illegal, with seizure, fines and jail time depending on offense. Any modifications to a gun would face similar penalties.
No silly gun shows. Gun shops would have to be similar to ABC, a controlled centralized business with unified standards and practices.
If you reallly want to fire those more high powered weapons, there can be places you can fire them, renting them, on the premises, like a shooting range.
Either the drinking age should go down to 18 or the gun buying age should go up to 21.
( i'd prefer the latter, honestly, i'd prefer the option not listed above, drinking age to 18, gun buying to 21 ).
The 2nd Ammendment was intended for colonies/commonwealths/states that didn't have a standing army yet as a means to protect themselves. It was a new nation. Washington and the Federalists changed that in the mid 1790s when the Army was created to fight the Native Americans. If the States want to create militias, where people volunteer and train and have access to those weapons, much like joining the military but directly just for your state and not Federally bound in anyway, because they think/feel the State could rise against a tyrannical government, i'm in support of those members having access to the weaponry the National Armed Forces have ( though they would never get even close to the capabilities with pin point distance missiles, high speed jets, drones etc ).
My tweaks would be to allow magazines in bolt action rifles. You still have to slide the bolt to cycle in a new round, but you don't have to physically hand load the next round like a single shot. 22.
I also am not sure what to do with handguns. Under your rules they would essentially be outlawed. I dont think they should be banned completely.
*edit to clarify
* bolt action rifle magazines usually only hold 3 rounds +1 in the chamber so 4 total. Not 17 or anything crazy. If you get rid of all magazines (logistically how do you even do that with the millions already out there?) you're going to end up with a lot a lot of wounded animals that go off to die somewhere else and never get found or utilized.
* yes we hunted with all of those things in past times (and still hunt with bows) but the old times weren't subject to very highly regulated rules and seasons. They hunted when hungry and killed what was available when it was available. We get 5 days to find and kill a specific type and gender of elk or 9 days to find a kill a specific type and gender of deer etc.
