this is so amazingly painful

[xise]

Making weapons illegal will almost certainly both lower their price, and increase their lethality.

I think our experience with making drugs illegal versus making weapons illegal tells us differently as far as price and availability. Drugs are easy to smuggle because they are (1) completely nonmetal (2) can be hidden in the human body (3) net size is extremely small. Whereas weapons are (1) at least partially metal (2) cannot be hidden in the human body (3) net size of even a small automatic pistol is magnitudes larger than coke, meth, heroin, or alcohol.

I think that's why we don't see tons of soviet era small arms weaponry flooding the US black market. They aren't impossible to get (you know there are definitely criminal gangs/cartels in the us that want some and they definately all over central and south america!) but they are just orders of magnitude harder to smuggle as opposed to drugs.

Then again, reasonable people may differ!