I am sure I have overlooked something, but it seems to me that most of the right wing's gnashing

You don't start with what you actually want.

So, float the idea of confiscation as the first point of order, (like Beto did). Let the right get all worked up about that, (they already are anyway and have been for a long time). Then fall back.

Concede to the buy back idea. That would sound more like a win-win and a positive outcome. "Whew! They didn' coman takur guns!"

Otherwise, your outline is what I would think would be about right. Of course, the types of weapons have to be very clearly indicated and described.

That sounds like a good idea.

I would suggest using a lot of messaging that associates these assault weapons with tanks, bazookas, mortars, grenades, and other military grade weapons of war--a class not available for private ownership.

limbaigh and sons will interpret anything dems do to 50 mil a week and control messaging

about why these weapons are not for the public. We need doctors to show on TV why these weapons and their injuries are different than the injuries inflicted by handguns. Doctors have been interviewed many times in print but the public needs to see the pictures and the damage done.
The exit wound is the size of an orange or softball. Organs are pulverized and nothing can be done.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-saw-treating-the-victims-from-parkland-should-change-the-debate-on-guns/553937/

"The injury along the path of the bullet from an AR-15 is vastly different from a low-velocity handgun injury. The bullet from an AR-15 passes through the body like a cigarette boat traveling at maximum speed through a tiny canal. The tissue next to the bullet is elastic—moving away from the bullet like waves of water displaced by the boat—and then returns and settles back. This process is called cavitation; it leaves the displaced tissue damaged or killed. The high-velocity bullet causes a swath of tissue damage that extends several inches from its path. It does not have to actually hit an artery to damage it and cause catastrophic bleeding. Exit wounds can be the size of an orange."

ignore talk radio .

they wait in their think tanks for progress and then design PR campaigns to distort and undercut and send it thru 1500 radio stations and democrats have no clue

But you can't control the GOP / NRA messaging. It's coming and it'll be impactive. You may not understand why the phrase "gun grabbing Democrats" strikes fear into at least a small majority of voters, because you dismiss the fact that a large percentage of Democrats also own guns.

Oh boy, the government wants to give me $500 for my $800 AK. By the way, I sold that at a gun show two years ago. Honest.

Collecting guns in this country would require manpower that would make the Federal Highway Act look like a scout project. Twenty five million people in Australia.

OTOH, Jobs!

of not being thrown out.
No, honestly what the focus needs to be on is not new laws which can be thrown out and or easily repealed by the legislature in the future but rather we need an amendment to the Constitution.
Yes, it will not be easy to do it but few things worthwhile are easy.

Forcing people to give up their guns under penalty of law is no better than house to house searches

They've constructed their entire persona around it.

When you identify with a killing machine to that level, there is something extremely wrong with you.

Revealed that their were now 400 million guns in circulation in the US. 20-25% were AR variation with one just one brand selling 200,000 a year. The AR platform is projected to hit the 1,000,000 a year sold mark this year.

Where are we supposed to get Trillions of dollars?

We will not be able to put the horses back in the barn on this.

Sen Coons is right Beto’s statement will hurt the party. It hurts in areas we need to win deny it all we want. That statement will be a bludgeon for the next 5 years. Remember the clinging phrase? That was nearly 12 years ago I still hear it when canvassing. How many a year do we lose to inadequate healthcare because rifle deaths are on average 400 a year.

In Oklahoma this month a petition was circulated widely to just put to a vote to repeal Permitless Carry. It only needed 58,000 in a state of 4 million it got just over 30,000. Oklahoma has a huge population of Democratic Party members look at our Governors race last year.

But propaganda imagining liberals STEALING your weapon is how they've turned the issue into a civil war.Because liberals are every bad thing you can imagine.

According to this article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/america-s-rifle-why-so-many-people-love-ar-15-n831171


New AR-15 style guns range widely in price, from about $500 to more than $2,000.

I suggest that we offer a price that is at least the value of the gun. Why would anyone want to sell their $1000 gun for $500? Perhaps we can offer $2000 for any AR-15, working or not. That is likely to offer the most incentive to have people sell their weapon.

At the same time, make the sale of them illegal and make the possession of one a felony.