A honest question I really want an answer from Repubs

I don't know how folks would respond to such legislation honestly. Some may just be blowing smoke when they say "from my cold dead hands" and others may be sincere. Not sure how many law abiding gun owners would be willing to break the law by keeping their guns if such a ban were passed. I do feel that many would believe such a ban unconstitutional and feel that they are personally morally right by refusing to obey such a law and not consider themselves "criminals" even though thats what they would be legally defined as at that point.

I will say that many folks underestimate the near sacred holding of the 2nd Amendment to many gun owners. Many of those who do not own firearms are disconnected from the mentality of those who do and don't really understand just how important those firearms may be to those who hold the 2nd Amendment so dear. You may be surprised at how many would not comply with such a law. I have no idea how many that would be, but I believe it's many more than you may think.

As for me personally, not really sure, haven't thought about it much actually because I highly doubt it would ever happen for the aforementioned logistical reasons. It simply cannot be enforced and I highly doubt the government would even try to pass such a pointless law. But it's the government after all, they are unpredictable to say the least.

But I do respect the current laws in place. When I moved to NY for work I respected their AR style firearm ban and left my AK-47s in my home state where they are legal to own. I simply brought my pump shotgun there for home protection and left the rest of my rifles and pistols in my home state. I did that out of the respect for their law up there even though I didn't personally agree with it. But that's not my home state, I lived there temporarily so I felt I had no business deliberately disrespecting those folks local laws when I was basically a guest in their state for a few years. I wouldn't appreciate New Yorkers coming to live in Louisiana and petitioning to the local government to ban guns so I extended the same courtesy to them by not moving to their state and disrespecting their gun ban by bringing my guns up there even though I could very easily have gotten away with it.

Now would I extend that same respect if NY laws became national? Honestly don't know. What I would probably do is register one of my rifles and sort of test the waters to see exactly what the government is going to do with that registration in the coming years or after the next tragedy. There is no "if" but "when". And WHEN the next tragedy strikes with an AR style weapon I'd like to see how the government responds to that with their new gun registration database. Would they use it to hold the registration owner responsible for the crime or use it to say "enough is enough" and confiscate all weapons of that type?

Basically what I'd do is "give them one" and see what they did with that information. What I need is to be shown that I can trust the government with that information. I have no issues with gun registration, I'm no criminal, and I have no issue with the government knowing exactly what I have in my possession. My car is registered and I don't worry that the government is going to come take my truck away one day for some reason because they know I have it. I don't have the same feeling in regards to firearms. I believe that hysteria is a powerful tool and that if enough irrational people scream loud enough then their voices may be heard even if their sentiments are irrational. And that is what I worry about.

Bottom line is that until the government can assure me that they will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, under ANY circumstances tell me I can't own my AK's, then I will more than likely only let them know that I have 1. And what so many folks fail to realize is that what I just stated above was the POINT of unregistered firearms. In many states you literally CAN'T register your gun even if you wanted to because there is no way to register it and that was done on purpose as the state governments way to protect you as a gun owner in case the Federal Government ever tried to overstep their bounds and take your guns away.

Anti-gun folks hate that but the fact of the matter is that this arsenal of unregistered firearms in the US was a design choice, it was no accident nor unforeseen circumstance....