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MohRokTah

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Sat Jul 9, 2016, 04:05 PM Jul 2016

Step by step legal guide on how to ban all firearms in the United States [View all]

1) Write up an amendment to the constitution. Basically, all it needs to say is this:


Section 1. The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of firearms, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.


2) Convince 290 members of the House of Representatives that amendment should be passed.

3) Convince 67 members of the Senate that amendment should be passed.

3.5) Barring being capable of both 2) and 3), convince 34 state legislatures to pass identical legislation calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention for the purposes of considering that amendment, then have 26 voting delegations vote to pass it.

4) Upon completion of 2) & 3) OR 3.5), convince 38 state legislatures to ratify that amendment.

5) Then just get all 50 states to make all firearms illegal.

Best get started right away and good luck!
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Then confiscate some 300 million firearms Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #1
I was just giving the steps required to ban them all. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #2
I understand Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #3
Nah, just tax bullets $250 each. JaneyVee Jul 2016 #20
You'd actually have to make gun ownership illegal TeddyR Jul 2016 #26
Not just ink! Electrons too given the hate breitbart.com is spewing scscholar Jul 2016 #31
Add to the list "Put down the second Civil War". roamer65 Jul 2016 #4
I was staying away from enforcement issues. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #7
People don't realize it, MohRokTah... roamer65 Jul 2016 #14
I'm not so sure. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #22
Way, way too much work involved in that approach DonP Jul 2016 #5
The Supreme Court could reverse Heller tomorrow TeddyR Jul 2016 #27
I know, it's just another excuse for them DonP Jul 2016 #34
Excellent post. Just the facts. n/t Kang Colby Jul 2016 #6
As long as too many progressives remain happily ignorant Matrosov Jul 2016 #8
Step 1: Public financing of elections. baldguy Jul 2016 #9
But then you run countr to the first amendment. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #12
Money is not speech. baldguy Jul 2016 #13
Not officially, but it is essentially MohRokTah Jul 2016 #16
Do you support the biggest RW threat to free speech & democracy this country has faced? baldguy Jul 2016 #17
I disagree with the ruling, but it IS the ruling. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #18
That's a cop-out. baldguy Jul 2016 #25
No. That's the law. eom MohRokTah Jul 2016 #28
I am not so sure of that Egnever Jul 2016 #35
Overturning stare decisis is a high hurdle. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #36
No hunting? underpants Jul 2016 #10
Simply impossible Calculating Jul 2016 #11
Meh. I prefer community pressure. hunter Jul 2016 #15
Just make each bullet $5000. JaneyVee Jul 2016 #19
Unconstitutional. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #21
It's possible treestar Jul 2016 #23
27 Amendments to the Constitution have been ratified. MohRokTah Jul 2016 #24
A much easier way .... cosmicone Jul 2016 #29
The only problem is most Justices, especially on the liberal side, are loathe to alter stare decisis MohRokTah Jul 2016 #30
They can both run contemporaneously cosmicone Jul 2016 #33
You still have to pass laws that actually impact firearm ownership TeddyR Jul 2016 #32
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