Maybe, but...
If Beto weren't out there calling for my forced disarming, I'd have a conversation with you about all the things I'd concede on the gun debate. An assault weapons ban isn't one of them, but a higher bar is. His call makes me not want to budge, as he attempts to shift the overton window on gun control.
DC v Heller was supposed to take a gun ban off the table such that we could quit at the extremes and get some work done. For years the threat of fed gun bans kept people entrenched...not one inch. And I was very happy to see DC versus Heller with a hope that we could see some movement. I I fully acknowledge the vacuum that has been created and as such the pendulum is swinging. I said the same thing in other posts for years, that gun owners need to take lead on this or a Beto character will take it.
I suspect that constitutionally you can't come take my gun from me. Biden made reference to this. it is the reason that you can't ban automatic weapons but just make their transfer very difficult. It is why Kamala is referencing the importation of AR-15s. Which doesn't do anything since so many are made here anyways. You can stop new ones, you can't take them from me I believe. But I'm no lawyer.
But that's no matter. This type of grandstanding resets us back to heavy entrenchment and inaction.