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besides, having strict regulations makes it much easier for law enforcement to... umf... strip da bad uns from guns.
Considering that it is a Federal felony for a bad guy to so much as touch a single round of ammunition, or ANY gun, I fail to see how piling more and more restriction on people like my wife and I (who have never had so much as a speeding ticket) helps law enforcement take illegal guns away from the bad guys. Yet that's where the gun prohibitionist lobby focuses its efforts--on people like me.
It seems to me that the anti-gun lobby is far more vocally opposed to me lawfully possessing a modern-looking rifle than they are opposed to a criminal illegally possessing a .38 caliber revolver, even though it is the latter that is the crime problem.
Sort of like the proverbial drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight instead of in the ditch where he lost them, because the light is better under the streetlight...