You want some common-sense gun control? Here you go.

[Egalitarian Thug]

110. Actually it doesn't. Everybody in America that really wants a full-auto rifle/pistol

has one or can get one. I know that here in Las Vegas and in Scottsdale there are several places that specialize in letting people shoot full-auto weapons for exorbitant fees and they are always busy every day all year long. Some people come here from all over the country, and the world, just to shoot them.

You'll have to define the term rarely; Use of rifles of all types in crimes are a tiny fraction of gun crimes and gangsters still have and use them with regularity. The other countries issue is the one worth looking into and in those nations where it has worked (all of them) have removed firearms from their culture entirely (or never had them in the first place). The thread on disarming the police has an abundance of information on it if you care to look at it.

The emphasis here is the demand. That's what we need to address. Passing a law prohibiting a few weapons that nobody can even define will have little positive effect, we've been down that road before and got the Gingrich Congress because of it. The it took the gun industry about 6 weeks to come out with new weapons that filled the same market but complied with the ban. And people kept being killed, mostly with pistols.

One last point. The absolutely surest and proven way to reduce crime of all types, including gun crimes, is widespread prosperity. When people are gainfully employed and doing well, they stop beating, killing, and robbing one another with absolute predictability.