"No one is suggesting guns be banned"
From Joe Biden's "Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic"
QUOTE: "Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."
There's that word "ban" - right up front!
QUOTE: "Regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act."
Everyone who currently owns a tactical style sporting rifle would be required to register it like a machine gun. This is a de facto ban, which would apply to ten to fifteen million firearms in the US.
QUOTE: "Buy back the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines already in our communities." "This will give individuals who now possess assault weapons or high-capacity magazines two options: sell the weapons to the government, or register them under the National Firearms Act."
Under penalty of what, exactly? 10, 15, 20 years in prison?
Of course, another option is non-compliance - which you can expect from a great number of tactical sporting firearms owners.
Everyone who is forced to bury their scary looking black gun in a sealed drum out back - is not likely to vote blue.
And all of this is to "end" the gun violence of roughly 400 deaths per year from rifles? Joe Biden's "Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic" has many, many other good ideas with real potential to address the issues that cause gun violence. The Democrat's obsessive insistence on banning scary looking black guns has cost us deeply at the polling place, and cost real, human lives. After Sandy Hook there was strong bipartisan political will to enact effective gun control, and the Democrats wasted it making an assault weapons ban the lynchpin of the legislation. We could have had a nationwide universal background check in place for the past six years but, sigh, instead we get people making a quite legitimate claim that Congress will do nothing about it - and tarring "both sides" with the do-nothing brush.
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