https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/david-hogg-suggests-compromise-on-gun-controlGun control activist and mass shooting survivor David Hogg suggested that instead of outright banning AR-15-style rifles, a compromise can be made that would allow them to be regulated at the same level as machine guns.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said a mandatory buy back of "assault weapons," for which March For Our Lives came out in support Wednesday, will be used by gun owners to say that they were right to say Democrats want to take their guns away.
"Well, let’s think about it this way. These are weapons of war that never should have been on our streets in the first place. I can guarantee you that the framers of the Constitution never would imagine a weapon like the AR-15 being in the hands of an American citizen. They never would have imagined somebody going into a school," Hogg said.
"If this plan ends up in Congress, and they say a gun registry is a nonstarter or the assault weapons ban and mandatory gun buy back program are nonstarters, OK. Then maybe we start talking about reclassifying them and making sure you have the right permitting in place where you can still go and use them," Hogg continued. "But people aren’t going to have nearly as easy accessibility to them to go and commit mass shootings as they are currently."
Machine guns, which are capable of firing more than one bullet per trigger pull, and other types of weapons and accessories, such as short-barreled rifles and shotguns, along with suppressors, are classified as Class III items under the National Firearms Act and are regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In order to obtain Class III items, purchasers are required to pay the ATF a $200 dollar transfer tax for weapons, and $5 for accessories. An additional form must be filled out, by which fingerprints and photos are submitted to the ATF and local law enforcement.
The average wait times for the forms to be approved by the ATF is a year.
