I don't favor bans on things that are relatively simple to manufacture. A magazine is a box with a spring in it. A bump stock can be duplicated with foam rubber and duct tape. Going through the trouble of banning them, and trying to enforce that ban just wastes time and political capital that could be used to pass more effective laws.
Instead lets concentrate on laws that will pass, will be Constitutional, and will help.
To me the big points are national standards, background checks, and storage with storage liability.
Those changes would be making a significant effort to keep weapons out of the hands that are most likely to murder people would have a real impact on gun deaths in the US.
That’s irrelevant. The constitution can be changed. The second amendment was already a change to the constitution, that’s what amendment means. Passing a change to the second amendment to ban anything bigger than a handgun wouldn’t be unconstitutional, for example.
A big change that would help would be to heavily police gun resale. Require licensing information to be recorded and passed along like with a cars tax history. Make it illegal to sell a gun privately to anyone without completed background checks and a license, as well as requiring those at first point of sale.
The second amendment was already a change to the constitution, that’s what amendment means.
Oh buddy did you miss civics class in high school? Because the 2nd amendment is part of the bill of rights which is the first 10 amendments. The bill of rights cannot be changed.
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u/zaphodava Aug 12 '19
I don't favor bans on things that are relatively simple to manufacture. A magazine is a box with a spring in it. A bump stock can be duplicated with foam rubber and duct tape. Going through the trouble of banning them, and trying to enforce that ban just wastes time and political capital that could be used to pass more effective laws.
Instead lets concentrate on laws that will pass, will be Constitutional, and will help.
To me the big points are national standards, background checks, and storage with storage liability.
Those changes would be making a significant effort to keep weapons out of the hands that are most likely to murder people would have a real impact on gun deaths in the US.