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The guy who was behind the trigger probably laughs at you and your gun control laws. In fact any laws.

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If nobody had guns from whom would the outlaw purchase(or steal) them from?

From whom they get guns in the UK? Demand will create supply. Drugs are banned, does it mean they are unobtainable?

> If nobody had guns from whom would the outlaw purchase(or steal) them from?

Nobody? Not police? Not govt?

How about folks who know how to use machine tools? (Guns are surprisingly low-tech.)

Yep, people who are rooting for gun ban fail to realize that M1911 was designed and developed 100 years ago and it basically remains as modern as the rest of the modern handguns are. Sure there have been some improvements in manufacturing technology and material science since then that make it possible to manufacture a gun like that in any decent machine shop.

Ammunition is actually the limiting factor. Primers, especially, are difficult to produce even vaguely safely in anything less than a $50mm+ plant. Whereas I could easily make an automatic short barreled rifle using just equipment at many hackerspaces or machine shops.

That's a pretty narrow and shallow way to look at it. For one thing, over time guns would become harder to get. Fine some people will always brake the laws. But at least maybe school children would stop shooting each other to death in school then?

And yes, it might make even the dumb, and gangsers think before drawing a gun in public and shooting away. Nothing will be perfect but I think looking at most other countries gun shooting statistics we can see it can greatly decrease it.

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