Giving Gun Reform a Shot

[gejohnston]

28. historical fact, not excuses

people will smuggle cheap ones into the country, people will just make them in the garage and they will just steal them. Full auto AKs are pretty cheap overseas.
Like I said, it is working with autos.

That mob still has them, can get them. The commission won't let them use then like the 1920s. Street thugs never did. Comparing full autos in US crime (which was near zero then) to now (still near zero, just without "glorify the gangster" effect) kind of reminds me of a debate between Paul Krugman and Ron Paul. Krugman was talking about what a disaster cutting spending did to modern economies. Ron Paul was talking about Rome falling because of debt and moving away from the gold standard. This argument kind of makes you sound like Ron Paul.

As for the other question about all of those millions of handguns that won't get registered. Well, I'd guess most would get registered. You can't legally use it for self defense, you can't sell them and you would be at great risk just taking it to the range. Over time, an unregistered handgun would become almost be useless.

where has this worked? How would this registration work? Simple and easy like DMV or something out of Kafka like DC?

On the plus side, if someone commits a felony, they'd know if they owned any handguns, Straw purchases would become to dangerous for family and girlfriends to do. It would be very easy to trace and return stolen handguns because crooks couldn't just take them to an out of state gun show and sell them.

Why would a crook go to a gun show in another state? Besides violating federal law, gun shows are crawling with cops. They would be better off bartering it for drugs.

I know most here hate the idea, however it would make it more difficult for criminals get them, either on the street or from a straw purchase. Everyone agrees here that law abiding citizen should be able to purchase a handgun for sport, hunting and self defense. Law abiding citizen are not the problem.

Most hate the idea of pointless theater, no evidence of it proving effective anywhere as advertised and, oh yeah, giving extremists an inch.