Here's the thing - gang-bangers don't make their 9mm's in shop class. They don't pick them off the pistol tree. Corporations make them, by the thousands every day, in modern factories, and market them, for fat profits. (Nothing wrong with that - if the product wasn't designed to wound and kill. Because that is the specific purpose of handguns, society needs effective legal means of keeping them out of the hands of criminals, drunks, madmen, and kids.)

Yeah, criminals used to make single-shot "zip" guns - and blow their fingers off more often than not. Now, thanks to an ever-expanding supply of handguns, and an ineffective patchwork system of controls, enough leak from dealers and "law abiding gun owners" that criminals don't need to take that risk. I don't call that progress.

Feel free to amuse me with more clumsy insults, though.