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[quote=Anonymous]Tax ammo so each bullet costs $100.

Of course that will push people to make their own, so you can hedge against it by:

* Tightly controlling all chemicals needed to make gun powder as well as equipment needed to make bullets.  The McGyvers in the crowd will point out that it won't stop people making gun powder because you can make it from charcoal, sulfur from home depot and some bird poop, which is true, but it still makes it harder to make a lot of *quality* gun powder at scale. It also makes it harder for someone to collect hundreds and thousands of rounds, which school and concert shooters always come with.

* Control casings for cartridges.  Start collecting and destroying casings that could be used to make ammo.  Prohibit the sale of empty casings directly to consumers.   Again, people will claim they'll be able to make their own, sure, but it'll be a giant PITA for most people who won't be able to obtain enough brass to even shape *quality* cartridge casings.  Most jo schmos in public won't even have the equipment nor the know how anyway to be able to press and machine precisely sized cartridge casings for everyone of their guns anyway.  It's also critically important to get the thickness of casings, shapes, and leave enough space for a primer too when manufacturing casings.  It's not all that easy for a novice.

* Ban the sale of primers.  You can't make ammo without primers.  People can try to make their own primers, but the chemistry is very dangerous and a lot harder than making gun powder. Novices will blow their fingers off trying to mess around primer chemistry.  The govt can also strictly control the sale of the chemicals needed for making primers.  It's also a lot harder to making primers from materials around the house or from home depot because it requires very specific types of chemical you can only really get from chemical suppliers.  Again, there will probably be some McGyver out there who can figure it out from some dangerous Jerry rigged home lab, but the point is making it extremely difficult to manufacture *quality* primers at scale so they you can produce tons of ammo.

Control everything about ammo making and sale and it becomes very difficult to obtain lots of ammo to even be able to pull off mass shootings.  Sure, you can own the guns, but 2A never said you have the right to affordable ammunition.  Homebrewers will try to make their own ammo, some will succeed, many will give up, and many will hurt themselves or blow up their guns because they have no idea what they're doing and their quality control stinks since they're amateur chemists with no analytical equipment for batch control in quality during manufacturing. [/quote]

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