to lay this out more precisely, and I live in Austria, so I have a front row seat on how to use bureaucracy to steer behavior: you do not simply raise prices t

to lay this out more precisely, and I live in Austria, so I have a front row seat on how to use bureaucracy to steer behavior: you do not simply raise prices to 5000$. no, you gradually boil the water through addition of red tape. selling ammo should not be banned, the drug war shows what happens then. no, it needs to be legal, just amazingly, mind-numbingly complicated. the cost of the process would then be the markup on the sale. make the IRS, TSA, EPA whichever other three-letter agency you can find go all in and creative on ammo manufacture, sales, distribution. oh boy, the CO2 emissions alone should be fun. and quality standards, only the purest gunpowder should be approved, FDA-style. to protect the shooters of course, misfires are bad in your fight against the government - even the NRA can't deny that. Call it all the "Make Gun-Owners Safe" act, drop it in front of the republicans, tie some tax decreases to it. Try voting against that one.