Taking the idea that "we should consider the Australian confiscation as a model" how much should the government pay you for your guns? Current retail for used firearms? Or, more likely, an arbitrary figure?
It's part of the national debate now, so if someone brings it up, dollars are the point, how many dollars per gun the debate.
And not to forget that on the one hand we will be reimbursed for our competition 1911's on the one hand, while the CMP sells used 1911's for $750 on the other. That irony is sure to be realized by some policy staffers. Confiscation means immediately closing the CMP and buying the guns back. About the only gun buyback that is grammatically correct and they can trace.
This is why It's Not Going To Happen - the discussion on setting prices on all the diverse guns in our hands is more than enough to implode the whole concept if publicly debated, much less the 5th Amendment concept of reimbursing you for your property taken from you. If the county or state decides to condemn your land for a highway there is a process with appeals to demonstrate their price was tantamount to theft. It would take some heavy handed unConstitutional legislation to subvert that process.
Pricing: $250 per working revolver, $400 for polymer pistol, $600 for metal framed pistol, $400 for wood stocked manual action, ad infinitum. $100 bucks a gun isn't going to be enough - we need to multiply the aggregate by a factor of 4, 10, something.
If the antigunners want to consider their proposed policy to confiscate and reimburse us for our guns, sure, why not! Let's talk money - and when the gummint talks money these days, whats a few billion here or there. $33 billion is just the starting point, add in the usual cost overruns, impose a staff to supervise it with all their VA level travel reimbursments, not to forget the State lawsuits from about 40 Attorneys General citing "unfunded mandates" to accept the guns and handle them.
$33 Billion is going to become $330 billion really quick - and that figure falls into the amount we are already commonly over budget annually. It would easily double that years shortfall. Now we are talking MONEY, right? It would DOUBLE the national debt we owe for that year.
There's your "talk back" point when "that" anti gunner in the office brings it up. Ask them if they will approve higher taxes to pay it, and on what? Because they already won't to cover the excess spending already. Hypocrites.
Do the math and tell them the answer. Help them understand they shouldn't have even brought it up.
It's Not Going To Happen.
It's part of the national debate now, so if someone brings it up, dollars are the point, how many dollars per gun the debate.
And not to forget that on the one hand we will be reimbursed for our competition 1911's on the one hand, while the CMP sells used 1911's for $750 on the other. That irony is sure to be realized by some policy staffers. Confiscation means immediately closing the CMP and buying the guns back. About the only gun buyback that is grammatically correct and they can trace.
This is why It's Not Going To Happen - the discussion on setting prices on all the diverse guns in our hands is more than enough to implode the whole concept if publicly debated, much less the 5th Amendment concept of reimbursing you for your property taken from you. If the county or state decides to condemn your land for a highway there is a process with appeals to demonstrate their price was tantamount to theft. It would take some heavy handed unConstitutional legislation to subvert that process.
Pricing: $250 per working revolver, $400 for polymer pistol, $600 for metal framed pistol, $400 for wood stocked manual action, ad infinitum. $100 bucks a gun isn't going to be enough - we need to multiply the aggregate by a factor of 4, 10, something.
If the antigunners want to consider their proposed policy to confiscate and reimburse us for our guns, sure, why not! Let's talk money - and when the gummint talks money these days, whats a few billion here or there. $33 billion is just the starting point, add in the usual cost overruns, impose a staff to supervise it with all their VA level travel reimbursments, not to forget the State lawsuits from about 40 Attorneys General citing "unfunded mandates" to accept the guns and handle them.
$33 Billion is going to become $330 billion really quick - and that figure falls into the amount we are already commonly over budget annually. It would easily double that years shortfall. Now we are talking MONEY, right? It would DOUBLE the national debt we owe for that year.
There's your "talk back" point when "that" anti gunner in the office brings it up. Ask them if they will approve higher taxes to pay it, and on what? Because they already won't to cover the excess spending already. Hypocrites.
Do the math and tell them the answer. Help them understand they shouldn't have even brought it up.
It's Not Going To Happen.
