The phrase “common sense gun control” gets tossed about constantly by Democrats, especially during election years. But what does it really mean?
In the video that follows, Nicholas Johnson, Professor of Law at Fordham University, explains that, once you get past the platitudes about assault weapons and gun show sales, what most politicians really mean by “common sense gun control” is actually “gun confiscation.”
Watch the video to find out what has happened when gun confiscation laws were tried in other countries, and what that experience tells us about whether it could work in the United States.