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In reply to the discussion: White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings [View all]Kennah
(14,407 posts)The NRA isn't going to be onboard for ANYTHING. Just accept that.
Regulating private sales will probably get very broad support, but it won't have any effect on any of the massacres as those almost always involve legally purchased and owned guns. Doesn't make regulating private sales a bad thing, but I do foresee it creating a very large and lucrative black market in unlicensed guns. Expect "gun theft" to rise.
Registration gets people very nervous. That will get challenged, but it's hard to say what the SCOTUS will rule.
One a month rationing doesn't accomplish anything either.
AW and magazine ban? A renewal of the 1994 law? There's many more of them in private hands now, and it wasn't really a ban since it didn't ban anything. But the phrase does roll off the tongue nicely, "Assault weapon ban."