mikestand:

Wait a second. Isn't one of the gun lobby's heavy arguments against banning handguns that such bans won't work because you just can't keep the loonies from their beloved guns - that anyone who wants one will still be able to get one? Seems to me we have a bunch of loonies here demonstrating that they believe the exact opposite - that "restrictions will make certain weapons unavailable".

Hey, let's try that with Saturday Night Specials. It's worth a "shot".

The gun buyers' fear is that in the future they might not be able to buy them without risking felony convictions. Most of the gang members, in contrast, aren't worried about the risk of a felony conviction because they already _have_ felony convictions and anyway are not in the market for the kind of jobs for which felony convictions are an obstacle.