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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
It would take a lot of time, naturally. But if America were to close down all domestic gun manufacturing plants (yes, I know, not feasible and won't happen, so don't waste my time arguing) it would dramatically inhibit the introduction of new fire arms to society. After that, you would need a long term campaign of buy-backs, voluntary surrenders and other attrition-based models to reduce the number. It's not a problem that would be solved overnight, but which would require a long time.
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Yeah, beyond the fact that you have a society with a unhealthy obsession with guns, if you shut down domestic manufacturing, some entrepreneurial people will just find a way to bring in the guns from other countries like India and China and Russia to sell.
So unless you can shut down local manufacturing, secure all the ports, secure all the border crossings, secure all methods of getting guns into the states, the idea of a ban of fire arms is going to fail.
Again the United States takes paranoia to an artform. the minute that you announce that guns are being banned, people will see it as the first step in a "oppressive" Government, and they will take those guns and hide them in their back yards and sheds and in secret rooms in their basement, and their paranoia will increase.
so now you not only have to shut down local manufacturers, hire massive amounts of inspectors for ports and airports and boarders. Probably boost the size of the ATF. Hire people to inspect every home for fire arms. Probably massively increase the number and size of jails because I'm assuming that owning a gun will become a felony at some point.
American's are not going to give up their guns. Some might, but the majority of them won't.
There's one easy solution. Depopulate Montana, build a wall around it, advertise for every gun owner to show up with theie weapons, put them in Montana and offer a $250 million dollar prize to the lone survivor, and then pick up the rest of the guns laying on the ground for disposal. Plus the $250 million dollars will be covered by the PPV revenues.
Do that every year for 10 years and call it, the anti-hunger games (Because a lot of these people would be fat)