If you’re outside the US, I think you can be forgiven not understanding how implausible it is to imagine controlling our state borders in a way that would allow for enforcement of this plan.
I live in CA, I would bet Nevada would have much looser regulations on guns. I believe it would be impossible to stop even 1% of illicit trafficking across just the border between CA and NV.
So although I understand the principles under which you’re trying to approach this, pragmatically what you have described is pretty much a non-starter.
Edit: Note that I am not saying there’s some pragmatic way to do this. You laid out a theoretically solid approach, the reality just makes this particular attempt seem pretty unviable.
I didn’t say it’d work great. I’m talking about what’s legally possible to do.
The US federal government is in many ways prevented from doing the right things by the details of its constitution. Even when the Supreme Court is genuinely following it, there’s a bunch of stuff in there that lets individual states do crazy stupid things that the federal government can’t really stop. So even given the powers that OP has given me in this scenario there’s some big limits to what can be done. If he was to give me the ability to amend the constitution or control the state governments I’d be able to do a lot more.
If you’re outside the US, I think you can be forgiven not understanding how implausible it is to imagine controlling our state borders in a way that would allow for enforcement of this plan.
I live in CA, I would bet Nevada would have much looser regulations on guns. I believe it would be impossible to stop even 1% of illicit trafficking across just the border between CA and NV.
So although I understand the principles under which you’re trying to approach this, pragmatically what you have described is pretty much a non-starter.
Edit: Note that I am not saying there’s some pragmatic way to do this. You laid out a theoretically solid approach, the reality just makes this particular attempt seem pretty unviable.
I didn’t say it’d work great. I’m talking about what’s legally possible to do.
The US federal government is in many ways prevented from doing the right things by the details of its constitution. Even when the Supreme Court is genuinely following it, there’s a bunch of stuff in there that lets individual states do crazy stupid things that the federal government can’t really stop. So even given the powers that OP has given me in this scenario there’s some big limits to what can be done. If he was to give me the ability to amend the constitution or control the state governments I’d be able to do a lot more.