What gun confiscation would look like

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke boasted in the last debate that he will, in fact, come for your guns. Joining him were fellow Democratic candidates, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.

The talk in some quarters switched with impressive quickness from “nobody wants to take your guns” to “hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.” But what those people don’t understand is what a mandatory gun “buyback” — more appropriately known as gun confiscation given the government never owned the guns in the first place — would actually mean. It’s unprecedented, unconstitutional, and unworkable.