The thing is, the people on the far left who want to abolish "assault rifles", don't realize what this would do to the nation. There are so many of these types of weapons out on the street right now, how would you outlaw them? I live out in rural Ohio and the vast majority of people I know in my area, own some version of an AR-15 or AK-47. I suppose you could offer a government buyback program, but I can assure you that about only 10% of the people who own them are going to turn them back in. Not only that, but the only ones that will be turned in, would likely be the cheap Chinese surplus versions. You used to be able to pick them up for under $100. People will wanna keep the mid grade to high grade variations. Are you gonna go door to door and demand people give them up? That would be a terrible idea and would almost certainly lead to a civil war. People paid for them with their own hard earned money when they were legal, so if the government tried to take them away by force, that would be equivalent to theft. "Assault weapons" are here to stay. We just need a way to keep them out of the hands of the mentally unstable.

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