• zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You don’t specify where in the world you mean. I’ve got 15 minutes to spare on the toilet so I’ll just answer for some place:

    In Sweden they proposed recovation of granted licenses and a forced buyback of AR-15. They had to change it to a voluntary buyback. I belive the justice department said it would most likely be found unconstitutional.

    Generally civilian legal weapons are not used in crime, organised or not. They are also not stolen and then used in any significant numbers. It’s simply easier and cheaper to buy already illegal guns (or bombs, they are the latest fashion in the current gang wars).

    Over all it turned out as political showing of “we do something about the problem” that did nothing about the problem and would not have done anything about the problem.