# Just compensation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-compensation/813598>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-compensation/813598 "2018-05-04T20:27:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-compensation/813598/21 "2018-05-07T15:07:23Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Owners were given a period wherein they could register their legally-purchased firearms and keep them.

So their guns weren’t taken from them? I think the answer to UltraVires then is that no one was compensated after these laws because nothing was taken from them. That’s what I figured. I disagree with his view that a ban can’t be a taking but his examples seem like they weren’t takings at all.

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