Easy. You put a tax on guns or require registration. Make it a felony to not pay the tax.
Then you get to trace the chain of custody of the shooters guns and start arresting the people supplying arms to psychotics.
Then you get to trace the chain of custody of the shooters guns and start arresting the people supplying arms to psychotics.
If not, why not?
It’s even more clearly legal with the 2nd amendment, as taxation is clearly associated with regulation and paying taxes is a long established and enumerated power of the US government.
What’s the justification for registration and taxes on an individual citizen exercising their own first amendment rights?
Or their voting rights, for that matter?
I think that gun fanciers have benefited from a live let live attitude for a long time. As children continue to get slaughtered, I think the counter reaction to current gun stance will be extreme.
Personally, I grew up a country boy and had a .22 when I was 6. My position has changed and I’m not alone.
Back in the 90s when the assault weapons ban was in place, private sales prices for legal AR-15s were easily 3-5x more in 1995 dollars.
You regulate the legal sales to keep guns away from unqualified individuals. There such a glut of firearms on the market, a black market will spring up, so when those customers kill people, you go up the food chain and throw the black market arms dealers in prison where they belong.
Regulation works. There are people with NFA licenses who own Gatling guns, Tommy guns, BARs, etc. These are true firearms enthusiasts who don’t hurt anyone. Use a similar framework and get the crazy people away from firearms.
Felon's can't have guns already, and the quickest way to felon status is looking at someone cross-eyed with a firearm, and furthermore, if you're going off the handle and using it, I'm pretty sure your next visit to the ballot box is the last thing you're worried about.
Raise the price, reduce demand and risk.
I’m not worried about amateur machinists making homemade weapons with bird shit bullets. The higher risk people in that category are people like Timothy McVeigh making IEDs, and we as a society were able to regulate fertilizer sales to reduce that risk.
The lowers are the only regulated part in the USA.