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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Drugs are easily manufactured or grown therefore by definition difficult to control, firearms on the other hand all require heavy manufacturing facilities to make, therefore if the US goverment decided to outlaw guns, assuming a reasonable amount of public support, the flow of weapons would dry up to almost none very quickly, it would take a few more years, maybe a decade or so to take out the existing weapons on the street, but within a few years the US, and almost all of the rest of the developed world, would become gun free.
It is the US that drives the gun industry, if there are no legal sales in the US manufacturers like Glock and Smith and Wesson become insolvant almost overnight, illegal weapons in Canada and europe are all mostly sourced from the US origanally, it is the only place you can buy cheap legal guns freely.
If you take out the 300 million US market gun making goes back to being an almost exclusive military/goverment supply industry, guns everywhere become very expensive and tough to obtain, even the third world would see its supply tighten up and costs increase.
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Given your understanding of the American mindset for the 2nd Amendment, the pervasive ownership of guns by the average person for protection, hunting, etc. can you honestly see the Americans suddenly handing in their guns en masse...even if the manufacture and sale of all guns was prohibited, which IMO would never get passed into law?