We don’t need to confiscate AR-15’s….. After all, that’s the NRA’s wet dream: killing the people coming to take your guns. There may be a simpler, easier, and less dangerous way to pull the AR-15’s teeth.
The problem with the AR-15 is that its high velocity ammunition causes quickly expanding wounds in the human body. Entire organs are destroyed, and most ‘wound’ victims cannot be saved. That’s its purpose.
But there are low velocity ammunition for the AR-15 which produce “pencil — like” wounds in the human body. In other words: a wound like any other low velocity round from a pistol or hunting rifle. Wounds that give your daughter that you shot when she came in late… a fighting chance in the ER.
Ammunition does not have an infinite shelf life. Like “Cop Killer Bullets”, a first step might be regulating the types of ammunition for the AR-15. Of course, if you make high velocity rounds hard to find, only mass murder wannabe’s will have high velocity rounds. But the average AR-15 owner won’t.
(Oh, and I don’t own a gun. I am tired of the death threats, however, from people who do.)