Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Instead of banning guns, how about banning the ammo for certain guns? [View all]Flyboy_451
(230 posts)While it would be possible for some guns to be easily reconfigured for other cartridges by their owners, I was speaking more to the reaction of gun and ammo manufacturers. If such a law were to be passed, manufacturers would have redesigned models and re-fit kits for older guns out to the public before the law even went into effect. Pistols that use rimmed cartridges, while not the common design, have been in production for many years. By imply redesigning many common rimless cartridges to incorporate a rim, and then slightly enlarging the breech face, the law becomes useless. I will be just like the '94 AWB. Legislation that does nothing.
All of the above assumes that the law wold be found to be constitutional. I have no confidence what so ever that it would. Our supreme court has ruled that the 2nd amendment protects an individual right, and that any regulation of that right must be narrowly tailored for a specific purpose and that it may not restrict the right to own weapons commonly in use. Any productive solution, IMHO, will be found through other means.
JW