- Create the largest federal police force to ever exist (87,000 armed agents)
- Pass a ridiculously high tax on "assault weapons"
- Confiscate weapons for noncompliance with tax.
This is not about auditing grandma....
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Likely won't work, as the courts will throw it out. For example, they tried a $1,000 tax on handguns in a US territory, the Marianas Islands, and the court said no. This was after Heller.
The hoplophobes have proposed one here on the mainland, it will have the same result.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/14/don-beyer-1000-excise-tax-guns/
You're only right, in that you can get a new tax with only 51 votes, avoiding the filibuster, so a tax on guns is more likely than new gun control. But it's a very old idea that never gets legs, and the $200 tax stamp from 1934 was the last time it worked.
I hope you're right