2020 and take the Senate and the WH, and AR type weapons will be off the streets in a year.
That's what has to happen, and now is the time to do it.
As a matter of fact, when both Houses of Congress and the WH are Dem, fuck the 2nd Amendment, abolish it.
It's an archaic idea that has absolutely no place in modern American society.
It was alright once for humans to be owned and women were 2nd class citizens by this illustrious Constitution, and that proved to be wrong and was changed, why not get rid of that abomination, the 2nd?
It has absolutely no place in America in the 21st century
Changing the US constitution on that one would be too difficult and unpopular, ya need states too.
However much can be done!
Laws protecting gun manufactures, sellers and owners from lawsuits can be repealed.
Federal registration of fire arms, background checks, licensing and insurance requirements for owners, kinda like cars.
If the government can regulate the caliber of weapons and ban machine guns, it can make semi automatic weapons illegal too, in fact they could probably make repeating arms illegal too, as the founders envisioned, single shot muzzle loaders only. Let the conservative orientalists on the SCOTUS grapple with that one, they are big on the intentions of the founding fathers shit and the constitution being a dead document etc. Forget assault weapons, ban semi automatics of all kinds, pistols too, bet the SCOTUS goes along with it.
Limit magazine sizes.
Ban those on the no fly list, or those convicted of hate crimes or domestic violence from owning firearms.
Go after the NRA for funneling over $40 million to the Trump campaign through them, if the AG in New York don't take em down first.
Indict Wayne La Pierre for ripping off members and running a criminal scheme to defraud them.
Start compiling data on gun violence, evidence based policy requires data.
Laws prohibiting the mentally unstable from owning guns and be able to take the (a judge) guns of people based on their social media content and profile for a minimum period of time. Some counseling could save a lot of grief and the profiles of mass killers are well known.
TAX, TAX, TAX
This is a partial list of what might be done under the existing constitution to help mitigate the problem with a democratic hat trick in 2020 .
Taking a hard line on guns works, we have experience and data here in Canada to prove it, compare our homicide rate per capita to yours. Fuck em, Pot was illegal too and it never killed anybody, nobody ever got compensated for a trashed grow either, it was illegal, most guns should be and no compensation for them either, the cost has been high enough already.