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Gun Control: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness

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Pawn of the Oppressor12/18/2012 10:04:24 pm PST

re: #219 austin_blue

Treat all autoloading guns like machine guns. Register them with the ATF and make them subject to a $250 transfer fee for any sale, just like machine guns. That’s already law that has passed Constitutional muster. Pistols, rifles, and shotguns. Make the maximum capacity of any gun six rounds. Ban any clip or magazine with a capacity of greater than six rounds except for licensed gun ranges where you can go and rent a high-cap clip to get your jollies. Pistols and semi-auto rifles would be limited to six round clips. Shotguns and pump-action rifles would be required to have plugs to limit the capacity of the gun to six rounds.

This isn’t taking away your guns. This is common sense.

Institute a trade program, funded by the Feds, to replace larger clips with smaller capacity clips. Cheap. No hardship.

This bullshit has got to end.

Why six? Same number as the average revolver? The Clinton-era ban was 10, if I remember right. Anything higher was Law Enforcement Only. Re-instituting that restriction would work, especially because the hardware to support it is already in circulation.