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Originally Posted by glatt
This "fact" is often repeated by gun rights advocates. It's simply not true.
If (and it's a huge "if") guns are outlawed, they will be removed from the hands of law abiding citizens. That will leave guns in the hands of criminals. As the criminals are caught, guns will be taken from them. Over time, guns would become scarce. They will become virtually unobtainable.
This isn't just my opinion. Fully automatic machine guns were outlawed back in the '20s or '30s. You can't easily get them today, even on the black market. You hear every few years about someone being caught with one, but they are not the problem that other guns are. They are virtually non-existant or are kept in hiding where they do exist. The same would happen with all guns if they were outlawed. It would just take time.
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But you can't remove guns from the hands of law abiding citizens because of the 2nd amendment.
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Amendment II - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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And because the method worked with the fully automatic guns doesn't mean it would with other types of firearms. The automatic guns were more expensive and large, therefore harder to smuggle, plus they were mostly used by highly organized crime syndicates. Which don't have the strength today as they did then. Plus their tactics have changed since then...now they are into lobbying
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