FA_Q2
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It failed because the original assault weapons ban was riddled with holes, and thus the ban did little to mitigate the flow of assault weapons.
So yeah it was tried, but a ban that actually bans the sale of more assault weapons would be highly novel.
Like the bans in Britton? Or the ones in Australia? Or the city bans that were even more strict than the national ones? Perhaps the state bans that were strict?
I posted many examples with strengthening AND relaxing weapons regulations. NONE worked. You are taking a single example out of the sea that is available to you and even that one does not support your claim. I guess you could make blanket claims that your very specific idea has not been tried but the facts are that a wide variety of gun control has been tried all over the world as well as in the states and the vast majority of them are coming up with little to no evidence supporting any change whatsoever.
No. The USA is unique in its treatment of gun ownership, due to both the 2nd Amendment and the gun lobby, principally the NRA.
So we need to do our own experiments and not rely on those in environments very unlike ours.
As I pointed out (and you promptly ignored) bans have been tried in the states as well. Those bans are very broad ranged from minor regulations all the way to the damn near outright bans.
The point still stands, they have been tried and they have failed and you continue to demand that we try them again.