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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
Ok.
So let's say federal legislation is passed that makes all handguns prohibited devices and banned for citizens. Let's say that 1 in 10 firearms stateside are handguns. Which I think is conservative. That puts the number of handguns around 30 million, give or take.
So the instant that legislation is passed you will also have to provide an amnesty of sorts to protect people from being paper criminals overnight.
So how long does the amnesty last, and once that is in place what is the next step?
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What they did in the UK a few times as laws changed, was anounce the new law then give gun owners a one year period to hand the gun in, the UK had periodic amnesties during my younger years to let people bring guns in, usually it was old WW2 kit so there were always stories of cops being presented with Bren guns or PIAT's or the ever popular German grenade grandad brought home.