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I don't see how there could be an effort to disarm American citizens, simply because it's way, way too late.
I don't know the exact stats, but isn't there several guns per person in the USA? I personally know a guy in Texas with an official armoury. Meaning, he has had to declare all his weapons with the police or whatever, due to the sheer number. I believe he has more than 250 firearms. Now that might be an excessive case and obviously does not represent the average gun owner at all but the fact remains there already is a huge number of guns in private ownership. Even if gun sales were banned today in the US, and not one single gun was ever sold again, There will still be this enormous number of privately owned guns that aren't going to just go away.
I don't know about the amount of ammunition but I think it reasonable to assume that anyone owning guns is going to have a fair amount of ammo. Not to stereotype but the kind of person who keeps a gun for self-protection is usually the kind to make sure it's either loaded or the ammo is kept handy for use in an emergency. Until the Govt. goes door-to-door and forcibly tries to disarm the population, the number of firearms around will remain huge.

And, it's comical to think that gun owners would just lay down and allow the government to take away their weapons.
Whether anyone is for/against private gun ownership is pretty much immaterial, they are already out there.

I am left thinking that any form of gun control measure is purely a political act for show, cos it won't make a blind bit of difference to the availability. Any measure about registering guns, or background checks etc won't make one iota of difference to those intent on using guns for illegal purposes. Criminals and spree-killers will be able to get black-market guns as easily as drugs. I don't support criminals obtaining illegal guns, it's just a fact. The rules will only really matter to those who obey the law anyway.

<blockquote data-quote="Goggs Mackay" data-source="post: 157807" data-attributes="member: 4654">I don&#039;t see how there could be an effort to disarm American citizens, simply because it&#039;s way, way too late.I don&#039;t know the exact stats, but isn&#039;t there several guns per person in the USA? I personally know a guy in Texas with an official armoury. Meaning, he has had to declare all his weapons with the police or whatever, due to the sheer number. I believe he has more than 250 firearms. Now that might be an excessive case and obviously does not represent the average gun owner at all but the fact remains there already is a huge number of guns in private ownership. Even if gun sales were banned today in the US, and not one single gun was ever sold again, There will still be this enormous number of privately owned guns that aren&#039;t going to just go away.I don&#039;t know about the amount of ammunition but I think it reasonable to assume that anyone owning guns is going to have a fair amount of ammo. Not to stereotype but the kind of person who keeps a gun for self-protection is usually the kind to make sure it&#039;s either loaded or the ammo is kept handy for use in an emergency. Until the Govt. goes door-to-door and forcibly tries to disarm the population, the number of firearms around will remain huge.&nbsp;And, it&#039;s comical to think that gun owners would just lay down and allow the government to take away their weapons.Whether anyone is for/against private gun ownership is pretty much immaterial, they are already out there.&nbsp;I am left thinking that any form of gun control measure is purely a political act for show, cos it won&#039;t make a blind bit of difference to the availability. Any measure about registering guns, or background checks etc won&#039;t make one iota of difference to those intent on using guns for illegal purposes. Criminals and spree-killers will be able to get black-market guns as easily as drugs. I don&#039;t support criminals obtaining illegal guns, it&#039;s just a fact. The rules will only really matter to those who obey the law anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Goggs Mackay, post: 157807, member: 4654"] I don't see how there could be an effort to disarm American citizens, simply because it's way, way too late. I don't know the exact stats, but isn't there several guns [I]per person [/I]in the USA? I personally know a guy in Texas with an official [I]armoury. [/I]Meaning, he has had to declare all his weapons with the police or whatever, due to the sheer number. I believe he has more than 250 firearms. Now that might be an excessive case and obviously does not represent the average gun owner at all but the fact remains there already is a huge number of guns in private ownership. Even if gun sales were banned today in the US, and not one single gun was ever sold again, There will still be this enormous number of privately owned guns that aren't going to just go away. I don't know about the amount of ammunition but I think it reasonable to assume that anyone owning guns is going to have a fair amount of ammo. Not to stereotype but the kind of person who keeps a gun for self-protection is usually the kind to make sure it's either loaded or the ammo is kept handy for use in an emergency. Until the Govt. goes door-to-door and forcibly tries to disarm the population, the number of firearms around will remain huge. And, it's comical to think that gun owners would just lay down and [I]allow [/I]the government to take away their weapons. Whether anyone is for/against private gun ownership is pretty much immaterial, they are already [I]out there[/I]. I am left thinking that any form of gun control measure is purely a political act for show, cos it won't make a blind bit of difference to the availability. Any measure about registering guns, or background checks etc won't make one iota of difference to those intent on using guns for illegal purposes. Criminals and spree-killers will be able to get black-market guns as easily as drugs. I don't support criminals obtaining illegal guns, it's just a fact. The rules will only really matter to those who obey the law anyway. [/QUOTE]

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