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I mean, tbh, we have over 600,000,000 guns and trillions of rounds of ammo in ~45% of the pop's hands, no registry to know who/where those are, and at those numbers we're a larger "force" (no organization) with more guns and ammo than most of the world's militaries combined (and larger/more than ours "alone," well, combined with our police actually). Sure they have the fancy toys, but..
You'd have to go door by door and search literally every house AND somehow make sure the people to be searched don't stash shit before you get there with someone who has been searched, and you'd have to get them all (not miss one hidden in floorboards), AND you'd have to restrict home depot purchases going forward, AND somehow not get smoked by a "cold dead fingers" ass motherfucker, all so we can make sure our totally not fascist government is the only one possessing arms.
Good fucking luck. Even if someone could which is a big if, idk if they should considering that last bit.
If the political temperature was about a thousand degrees cooler, it would be trivial to create a long-term buyback program and a lot of sensible laws and a simple registry for responsible owners.
I had to sell my entire firearm collection when I fell into hard times and didn't get close to what I paid for them, if they had a program that paid even 75% of a gun's value you would have people lined up around the block to sell off their shitty old handguns and rifles they never use.
But america will never, ever, ever let go of their weapons as long as everyone is afraid of their neighbors and their government.
That's a big if too lol. But even then AUS' buyback only got about 700,000 firearms handed to the government, at the cost of over $700 million to taxpayers. At 600,000,000 guns, that'd be $6.E11 if ours cost the same as theirs did in '96. Something tells me we don't have scientific notation money just laying about.
And historically in the US buyback programs only do get those shitty revolvers and Jimenez arms, at best someone prints a bunch of chairmanwons or DIAS and exploits the system.
Then we'd need to define what the sensible laws are, and somehow make it so they're not abused, which is easier said than done.
And tbh they have good reason to be afraid of their government. Less so neighbors, but them too sometimes, shit gets violent over here, and sometimes you do need to protect yourself.