Why Gun Confiscation Really Wouldn’t Work In The U.S.

[livingston]

Why Gun Confiscation Really Wouldn’t Work In The U.S.
Beto O’Rourke is all about gun confiscation. To make matters worse, most of the Democrats currently running for president seem to support him in this with a notable exception. Even that exception isn’t opposed to the idea of gun confiscation, just the idea that it’s a workable solution.
With that in mind, it’s probably a good idea to look at what gun confiscation would look like here in the United States.
Luckily, Stephen Gutowski already did that over at the Washington Examiner.

There are no official statistics on how many guns Americans own, but the Small Arms Survey is the most widely recognized estimate of civilian, police, and military gun ownership in the world. Its most recent estimate puts civilian-owned firearms in America at about 400 million. That’s far more than in any other country in the world. There are more guns here than there are people. Civilians own 100 times as many guns as the military. Americans own so many guns it amounts to three times all the world’s militaries combined.
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Likewise, we don’t know exactly how many AR-15s and AK-47s there are, but the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry trade group, estimates that it is about 16 million. Beto has said he would base confiscation on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, introduced but going nowhere, which applies to many guns other than just AR-15s and AK-47s, so the number of guns affected would likely be much higher. If you stick to just the ARs and AKs Beto called out at the debate, the task seems somewhat less daunting than trying to seize 400 million guns from our 350 million citizens and Those rifles are about 4% of the total number of guns owned in the U.S.

Why Gun Confiscation Really Wouldn't Work In The U.S.

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[livingston]

Lets make a goal of 4 times all the world’s militaries combined.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces.

Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other.
Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast.

Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question.
'You are right,' he told the Americans. 'We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.'

 

[livingston]

Folks over there never learn do they

 

[FrankenCub]

In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces.

Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other.
Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast.

Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question.
'You are right,' he told the Americans. 'We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.'

I've seen different version going around for quite a while. So, which is true? Or are they all BS to make the US look like a cemetery for invading forces?

 

[Acer-m14]

Beto O’Rourke is all about gun confiscation. To make matters worse, most of the Democrats currently running for president seem to support him

and they want the LEO to come and take them .. not them ...

 

[livingston]

and they want the LEO to come and take them .. not them ...

Look at every revolution that banned guns ... elites don't do the dirty work....

 

[Steal2B]

 

[Toecutter]

You don't eat a turkey by swallowing it whole you take small bites over time. Ban this ban that . Take small palatable bites, its only a magazine a bumpstock no one uses a pistol grip . chip chip chip. Its the law my job is to blindly enforce, oaths mean nothing, pass responsibility to the court. Chip chip chip. Who cares about what congress is allowed to pass law about .