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LooseCannon said:
There's no such thing as an illegal gun. All guns are legally created and sold to someone - so yeah, I think it's possible.
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True, but criminals obtain them in an illegal manner such as through the black market.
LooseCannon said:
Besides, at the border, we can search every American who crosses if we want, and we can especially search people who have telltale signs of being more likely to carry a gun - Confederate flags, Donald Trump hats/stickers, anti-abortion signs. We can take apart every single American SUV that crosses the border and destroy (not confiscate, actually melt down) every gun that comes across. It's a much different world gun-wise up here, and I hope Border Services can keep it that way.
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Damn! That's amazing! However, our problem here is gangs and such who already exist in this country and are, as I said above, obtaining weapons in an illegal manner. That's what we need to put a stop to.
 
Travis The Dragon said:
Damn! That's amazing! However, our problem here is gangs and such who already exist in this country and are, as I said above, obtaining weapons in an illegal manner. That's what we need to put a stop to.
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I agree with you. Stricter gun control would help. But hey, it's not gonna happen. Good luck with that!
 
Travis The Dragon said:
How specifically?
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You know, Travis, every time I think you're hopeless, you prove you can learn. Very Socratic of you.

I can come up with a few methods - the problem is I don't know if they'd pass constitutional muster in the USA. In a place like, say, Canada, the idea of RFID tagging every firearm is plausible, as is making the sale/reselling of such weapons highly illegal. We could create a central database that scans and updates the location/owner of each firearm, and we could make it a law requiring all owned firearms to be scanned every year, so the central database knows where every gun in the country is. If the police see a gun and scan it, and it can't scan or isn't in the database, or it isn't where it's supposed to be, you can charge both the possessor and the person who was supposed to have it.

Now, in general, I think that's overkill for Canada. It's not particularly easy to get illegal guns here (as evidenced by the fact that the man who attacked Ottawa tried to get an AR-15 and couldn't) that aren't basic hunting weapons. But it is possible (see the RCMP attacker in Moncton, who is Canada's worst terrorist in quite some time with 3 killed and 2 wounded) if you're clever enough to get weapons legally that can be modified to be quite lethal. But I also think that the amount of illegal guns in the USA is just staggering, and the way to fix the problem is to recognize that all illegal guns start out legally - there's no people brewing up guns in an RV ala Breaking Bad - and to work from there.
 
LooseCannon said:
We could create a central database that scans and updates the location/owner of each firearm, and we could make it a law requiring all owned firearms to be scanned every year, so the central database knows where every gun in the country is. If the police see a gun and scan it, and it can't scan or isn't in the database, or it isn't where it's supposed to be, you can charge both the possessor and the person who was supposed to have it.
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The NRA would see that as very big brother/big state.
 
Yeah, drivers registry is probably seen that way too, but especially with things that can only maim or kill, the hurt feelings of the "Big Brother is watching me" crowds might actually come second, IMHO.
 
I have a power drill that can maim or kill yet I don't need to register it with anyone. Any tool can be misused to cause physical harm (I'll include cars in the category of tools), we can't register everything. There needs to be a point at which the State needs to just let people get on with their lives.
 
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