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Originally Posted by hrdwareguy
This would be a state specific law.
That's the thing when buying on the street...prices are much cheaper because the guns are already illegeal. If you are buying an illegeal gun what difference is a ban on that gun going to do. Besides, after the ban went into affect, you could still buy the same guns, they were pre-bans. And if you were that bent on getting one you could get a post ban and modify it.
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Yes, the point I was making was that after the police cleaned those guns off the street they were no longer available ever again.
Now they will be.
I understand that pre-bans and modifications were and are available. I'm posing the scenario that over time the availability dwindles. With a cap on the current supply, as demand increases, so does scarcity and price--even for those cheapo sks's.
One of the main issues I had with the week's current public debate was the constant citation that gun crimes had remained static over the course of the ban, as if that illustrated the uselessness of the ban. By itself, that number means nothing and to most people watching the news in their living rooms it probably meant the opposite--that the ban had kept the numbers from rising.