Appearing on “The McLaughlin Group” this weekend, conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan warned of armed revolution if Obama attempts to ban and confiscate all weapons, the Daily Caller reported Sunday.
“There are three million ArmaLite rifles — those Bushmaster types out there right now, and people are buying them like hotcakes,” he said.
“Every gun show, the sales are up enormously. Forty-one percent, they were up in December — for last December, which was a record year. … The push is going to come on three things —
grandfather in the assault weapons that are here now; to try to outlaw assault weapons, outlaw magazines that carry more than 11 or 12 bullets; and also background checks at gun shows,” he said.
But moderator John McLaughlin suggested that without the Second Amendment, Congress could pass a law banning private gun ownership.
“With no Second Amendment,” he said, “Congress could pass a law, as limited as this: banning assault rifles or as sweeping as prohibiting all private firearm ownership and requiring the surrender of all privately held firearms.”
“There would be a revolution in this country,” Buchanan shot back.
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