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Showing Original Post only (View all)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 The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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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Step by step legal guide on how to ban all firearms in the United States [View all]
MohRokTah
Jul 2016
OP
Do you support the biggest RW threat to free speech & democracy this country has faced?
baldguy
Jul 2016
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