They ain't buying them just to turn them back in.

 I mean....  the Feds have to know this, right?

Gun sales hit a new record in July, the 36th straight month of firearms purchases over 1 million.

In breaking the record, people delivered a strong message to liberal Democrats, who last week passed a ban on buying the nation’s most popular firearm, the modern sporting rifle, and other semi-automatic weapons and parts.

According to industry experts, sales in July topped 1.2 million. That means sales have hit 1 million or more each month for three consecutive years.

Thirty-six million weapons.  Probably a lot of them are handguns, and shotguns, but a whole bunch of them are AR platform rifles.

And the people who bought them are, by and large, not inclined to turn them in if the government says so.

I wonder if the cheating shitbags controlling the government are counting on that.