Gun "Buy-Backs"

Every single Democrat candidate for POTUS 2020 has come out in favor of a mandatory gun buy-back program for so-called "assault rifles."

Now, you should first know that there are no "assault rifles" in the hands of the general public, regardless of what our honesty-challenged politicians and celebrities tell us.  Assault rifles are fully-automatic (one trigger pull, multiple rounds fired) and only available to the military.  Full-auto weapons have been outlawed in America since 1934.  They are available only in rare instances and under special - and hard to get - Federal licensure.  Got it?

Second, the weapons generally mislabeled as "assault rifles" are the AR-15-style guns based loosely on a 55 year-old design.  It is semi-automatic, meaning it shoots once for every time the trigger is pulled.  These rifles are so popular because they're small, light, modular, very flexible and inexpensive.  As America's most popular firearm, there are more than 15 million of them in collections today.  They are favored for target practice, hunting, competition and self-defense.

It should be noted that every one of these weapons that were purchased by legal citizens were obtained from a Federal Firearms Licensee.  Your local gun store, as an example.  They bought the gun from the manufacturer, and you bought the gun from them.  Commerce completed.  Then how, I might ask, would the Federal Government go about buying them back if they never owned them in the first place?

Ruminate on that for a minute.  You simply cannot buy anything back from the Government that it never owned.  So this whole "buy back" ruse would be nothing more than some bureaucratic sleight-of-hand euphemism designed to get you to turn loose of your firearm without unnecessary drama.  Or bloodshed, presumably.

If Smith and Wesson, or Ruger, or Colt, or Remington comes a'callin' and wants to "buy back" any of the guns they made and I now own, I can tell you my answer:  "No thanks!"  And if the Federal Government comes a'callin' and wants to "buy back" something they never owned, my answer would be the same.   

And something tells me a large majority of the other 100,000,000 gun owners here in America would respond in the very same way...