The current budget for the BoP is $7.1 billion, but given the massive non-compliance expected with the passage of any gun and magazine ban, we’re clearly going to need more prison space. According to the Federal Register, it cost an average of $36,299.25 to house an inmate in federal prison in 2017. Let’s go ahead and round up to $40,000 per year (the increase from FY2016 to FY2017 was about $1,500). If we have 10,000,000 Americans who own one of these banned firearms (I’m being extremely conservative here), and just 3% choose not to comply and are charged, arrested, and convicted, that’s 300,000 new federal inmates. And at $40,000 a year per inmate, that’s going to mean an increase in the Bureau of Prisons budget of $12-billion.
But we’re not done yet. We’re going to need to build new prisons to house all those new prisoners. Right now there are less than 30,000 individuals in the Bureau of Prisons system on weapons offenses, so we’re talking about about a tenfold increase. In fact, according to the Bureau of Prisons, there are around 177,000 federal inmates total, so we’re going to need to build a lot of new facilities. This would be a one-time expense, but it won’t be cheap. At $50,000 per bed for 300,000 beds, that’s another $15-billion in capital costs.

I like the way you think Snowpa. But do you really think reality actually comes into the equation?

Jack

You forgot to pay the additional turnkeys.

All of this would require federal law enforcement to do a lot of work. Unlikely.

Well Michigan just had a large law enforcement meeting in Traverse City one item was emptying the over crowded jails could be to make room for upcoming felons that own a 22 rifle with extended tube magazines

Aren't most prisons low-key for profit?

Don't worry, for those gun laws to pass, the democrats will have to be in charge. If the democrats are in charge they will just continue to let more drug dealers, thieves and illegal aliens, who have committed other crimes, besides coming to the US illegally, out of prison, as they now do in democrat controlled cities, to make room for conservative gun owners.

Keith