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The worst fear in the hearts of LEGAL gun owners is realized.
A landmark Federal Law is passed. All guns of any kind
in private hands are banned.
Legal gun owners are required to turn in their guns or face
jail. Being law-abiding citizens, they do so.
As a further step, the records seized from the now out-of-business
gun dealers are used to locate and confiscate all previously
legal firearms in private hands. Citizens who do not cooperate
are jailed.
Neighbors turn in neighbors who are suspected of posessing
illegal guns. Children, at the urging of the schools, turn
in their parents.
Police departments, already stretched thin, must dedicate
additional resources to the enforcement of these new laws.
Criminals, drug-dealers, gang members and other previously
ILLEGAL gun owners, of course, do not comply with the law,
their guns were always illegal.
IOW - The Criminals Still Have Their Guns
As with drug and alcohol prohibition, a huge black market
for illegal firearms spawns a new, more sophisticated network
of organized crime.
The illegal gun market explodes. Gun smuggling and black-market
gun sales are now really big business.
Basement machine shops are set up to make black-market guns.
The majority are poorly manufactured and many are unsafe
in any hands. Substandard ammunition is also manufactured
in basements and garages to feed the black-market needs.
Accidental gun deaths rise.
The BATF has the same success in its 'War on Guns' as the
DEA has with the drug war -- none.
Illegally armed burglars, muggers, carjackers and other
criminals now know they can prey on the unarmed public, with
little fear of a meeting a defense or apprehension by the
already overtaxed police.
The crime rates go through the roof.
Helpless citizens now hover in fear in their barricaded
homes and seldom venture outside.
The military is called up to assist and we now have armed
troops on many street-corners.
A small percentage of renegade military and police personnel
participate in the crime and corruption.
The news: "Today, a 52 year-old Brooklyn
man, father of three, used an illegal war-surplus 45 to
kill three armed prison escapees as they crashed through
his daughter's bedroom door. Under the new 'zero tolerance'
laws he has been jailed for having an illegal gun. When
convicted he faces ten years in prison.
People (law abiding citizens) revolt.
People die.
Democracy, America, and society as we know it cease
to exist.
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