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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I'm all for sensible regulation, I just haven't heard of any yet.
Making it harder for criminals to get guns by placing regulations on legal ownership is not going to work. prohibition didn't work last time is was tried and our highest crime rates are in the cities with the highest regulations
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Prohibition was a different animal, same as drugs because anyone with a bit of knowledge can make their own alcohol & or drugs. It doesn't require out of the ordinary machinery and a large set of special skill sets. Most of the stuff needed can be built & prepared by a average person with a bit of knowledge.
Meanwhile there are very few people that would be capable of building their own guns and out of those that could they certainly wouldn't be able to replicate the working quality of an average gunsmith or produce any significant numbers.
It's apples & oranges.. It would be left to smugglers and to be honest it would be a hard job for them to get any sizable amount of illegal guns into this country on a regular basis. We are't some 3rd world country in Africa where you can just drive a truck or plane in with ease across the boarder.