There are firearms in this country.
In civilian hands.
And even if they're banned like DiFi wants
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.”
Yeah, they're still not going away. (Thing 1)
So, what am I basing that on? Australia, the UK, and Germany. (pdf)
Let's look at the UK first. According to page 64, there are (in the year 2000) 1,793,712 registered firearms. And the bare minimum unregistered firearms? Four million. I'm going to round that and say 2 out of every three firearms in the UK are not registered (which, if I'm correct on my understanding of UK law, means they are illegal).
Huh. Guess the law abiding citizens of the UK aren't as law abiding as we were led to believe.
Let's take that 2 out of 3 firearms number and apply it to the US. Last estimate I saw was 310 millions firearms out there. Carry the one...yeah, let's just go with "a metric butt ton" of firearms would still be out there, unregistered.
Ok, so the UK is kaksi on the list up there. Kolme is Germany. Compliance rates for Germany....(small arms) survey SAYS...Germany required gun registration back in the early 70s. The estimates back then were 15 to 17 million firearms. Would you like to guess how many were registered? Try 3.2 million.
Back to yksi: Australia!
Link from 1997.
Table Two suggests that, pre-"buyback", it can be estimated that there were about seven million firearms in Australia. It can also be estimated that probably about 40% were prohibited under the Howard-Beazley bi-partisan confiscation. Using the estimated pre-"buyback" figure of seven million firearms, 40% equates to about 2.8 million prohibited firearms of which the "buyback" collected 640,000, or about 23%. That is hardly a success.
Let's turn to the West Coast.
link
Nine days before the deadline, thousands of Californians are defying a ground-breaking state requirement that they register their military-style semiautomatic guns.
Many gun owners are calling their defiance an act of political protest in the tradition of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. "If civil disobedience was good enough for Dr. King, it's good enough for me," said Mike Wright, a member of Gun Owners React Committee, a private lobbying group.
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As a one-year registration period draws toward an end on Dec. 31, only about 7,000 weapons of an estimated 300,000 in private hands in the state have been registered. This non-compliance has virtually nullified the first step of a March 1989 law that set the pattern for similar attempts to limit ownership of assault rifles in other states and in Washington.
New Jersey anyone?
More than a year after New Jersey imposed the toughest assault-weapons law in the country, the law is proving difficult if not impossible to enforce.
Only four military-style weapons have been turned in to the State Police and another 14 were confiscated. The state knows the whereabouts of fewer than 2,000 other guns, even after owners were given a year's grace to register their arms as legal sporting weapons or have them certified as inoperable -- and despite the fact that it is now a felony to possess unregistered weapons.
Everyone agrees that these numbers represent a mere drop in the bucket, but there is little agreement on how big the bucket is. The State Police estimated that there were between 100,000 and 300,000 privately owned weapons in New Jersey when the ban was passed in May 1990.
Getting back to Thing 1. There will always be firearms in civilian hands, especially in the US. If the British, Australian and German peoples (not to mention Californians and people from New Jersey) don't turn in or comply with their firearm laws, how in the world do you think a handgun ban or an assault weapons ban or a total ban (pointing to DiFi here) will go over in the US?
Things 2 and 3 were cut for length since I haven't received my Soros check (for being a liberal) or my NRA GUN SHILLERY!?!11! check (for being pro-RKBA) lately.
And yes, I get paid the same amounts from each!