There are over 400,000,000 guns in private possession. Allow $500 to collect each gun and allow $500 to dispose of each gun. Allowing 5 pounds weight for each gun is 2 billion pounds or 1 million tons. A pile of guns equal to the weight of 9 Gerald Ford Aircraft Carriers. In other words too big...
.00265% of guns cause homicides. Out of approximately 30,000 gun deaths a year about 19,000 are suicides. 11,000 are homicides.
Violence increases with poverty. 500% inflation in some food prices creates hate.
"Some like to treat them as an investment like gold and silver."
Wish I had bought every full automatic I could have 25 years ago. Bet they hold the record for most appreciating.