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Originally Posted by Windsweptcoast
How many handguns are stolen in this country from properly licensed owners and how many of the stolen handguns are then used for armed robberies and other gun violence? Let’s face it a handgun ban would at least reduce this problem.
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Would work about as well as a crime ban. All a ban will do is increase imports of illegal weapons and spawn an illegal clandestine gun manufacturing industry. The market for illegal guns has long existed, someone will always satisfy the demand. You do realize it is as easy to manufacture guns as it is to create a grow op or meth lab. Gun bans are a knee jerk reaction to a societal problem that is ignored with no political will to address it. It is a placebo reaction that only has effect on those who believe it will cure something.