If you can't take the guns off the street, how about taxing ammunition until it's no-longer affordable in large quantities? It has worked when taxing other vices and undesirable behaviors like tobacco.
You can't argue that you have taken away the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense. You just make it economically unfeasible and make people think twice about using firearms in an attack. The police, military, and approved ranges can still have cheap ammunition but you simply can't acquire it cheaply for personal possession.
You cannot claw back or register the 300 million firearms in the United States. You can prevent their use however because the US only has a 3 year supply of ammunition at the current rate that people are shooting. People will certainly hoard at the beginning but eventually supplies will dwindle.
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 10-11-2017 at 10:33 AM.
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