What if the US allowed only impractically large gun calibers?

[KDR_11k]

I honestly have no idea if this would work but what if instead of all this assault weapon, pistol, etc talk the US added a gun restriction that all civilian guns had to use something stupidly huge like a .50 BMG round? While that wouldn't prevent individual murders it would have a good chance of keeping people from firing a bunch of shots quickly, right? Building a semi-auto .50cal weapon with a bump stock or other such popular mass shooting tools seems like the recoil would take your arm off. Even if someone gets a M2 machine gun off the black market it's impractically huge and awkward for shootings in public places. You'd need to have a lot of strength to handle any weapon in this caliber.

Sure, it'd make building armored cars for celebrities very tough...

 

[Digital-Kill3r-7]

Someone's gunning for the "possible nuke area?" title

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

Ban all guns, sell rocket launchers and grenades for home defence.

 

[Mcfrank]

How about we just ban all guns rather than a stupid idea like this?

 

[Koukalaka]

"I need this anti-aircraft gun for home defense... and hunting."

 

[phazedplasma]

Or how about we combat white nationalism?

Yano, just a thought

 

[Boddy]

handgun are the biggest problems by far, anything in that direction would be very helpful.

Also instead of gun bans, I think making a combination it harder to get guns, buy back programms and better education are the best options to reduce gun violence.

 

[Xando]

What if the US didn't allow firearms

 

[Deleted member 18944]

what if instead of all this assault weapon, pistol, etc talk the US added a gun restriction that all civilian guns had to use something stupidly huge like a .50 BMG round?

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Is this a joke thread, OP?

 

[Deffers]

Someone's gonna keep those for home-defense and I'm gonna be real with you, overpenetration is a major concern. A .50 BMG carries a cone of shrapnel with it and can tear through most walls. You can kill a large number of people with a single bullet.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

This is approaching Chris Rock's "guns are free but a bullet costs $5000" levels of asinine.

Making it more impractical for racist white people to kill a bunch of brown people isn't going to stop them from trying.

 

[KDR_11k]

Is this a joke thread, OP?

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More like an absurd thought experiment.

 

[Aurica]

Or how about we combat white nationalism?

Yano, just a thought

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Absolutely a huge problem, but the number of guns in the nation and the ease with which they are bought are the biggest factors leading to mass shootings. I would like much to be done to combat white nationalism as well as gun ownership, though.

 

[Tuppen]

I'd say only allowing BB gun calibers seems wiser but only allowing cannon balls might work as well.

 

[Karasseram]

Why not go the full way only allow tactical nukes.

 

[uzipukki]

The op isn't the fastest bullet it seems.

 

[C.Mongler]

I feel like we wouldn't need to theorize weird ass "solutions" like this if the US government was capable of adjusting the guns, guns, guns free-for-all in any level.

 

[LL_Decitrig]

They should make open carry conditional on the carrier wearing clown shoes. It wouldn't make the United States safer from guns (that would require a massive change in the political culture, which is broken) but it might be funny.

 

[Isilia]

This is not cool

 

[Deleted member 37303]

Guns are awesome. They just shouldn't be so easy to get.

 

[danowat]

If you need military hardware to defend your house or yourself, then your country has problems that banning guns isn't going to solve.

 

[I am a Bird]

I for one will gladly open carry my M202 flash. I need need it to protect my FAMILY!

 

[Volimar]

Don't make parody/troll threads.