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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
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.
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This is the exact train of thought that people tried to use to justify that poll taxes aren’t voter suppression. Attempting this with ammunition would be seen as trying to circumvent the 2nd amendment and you’d have thousands of lawsuits immediately. There’s a zero percent chance it would be allowed to happen or be seen as constitutional.
The only way it changes is if somehow the SC changes their stance and remembers the “well regulated militia” portion of the amendment. It won’t hapoen, no changes are coming, the gun nuts won.