A ban on anything over 50cal. I would call that a ban on some guns. There also would be a affective ban by creating rules and requirements for guns that would price them out of reach for those of moderate means.

Since criminals will defeat any or all of these requirements what will these requirement do besides being a burden on, or creating a criminal out of, otherwise law abiding people?

If I was off of the mark on you, I wasin grenade rangeanyway.

I think you may have pegged me wrong too. I did specifically said that I live in an area where I feel no need for a firearm for personal protection (I have never and probably will never keep a gun for personal protective reasons.), that being said,things can change and if you do not believe that the real goal of all of these proposals is a total gun ban, I think you are delusional.

A 12 gauge is above 50cal, by the way.

Bob

Edit- Shamlin, Thankyou for serving in the Marines and for currently serving with law enforcement. Your service helped to keep us free and continues to help keep us safe. I will be at Camp Pendleton this coming Tuesday to meet a bus carrying my son home from a tour in Iraq. Of the group he served with he had this to say, "Not a drop, nary a scratch."

One of the biggest problems I have with gun laws is that criminals do not obey them. The biggest affect that these laws have is to disarm honest citezens. Where highly restrictive gun laws are enacted, violent crime tends to rise dramatically.

Some years ago, 35 or so, Psychology Today had an article about guns, crime, gun laws, and criminals. The main conclusion of the article was this question and answer- "Are you safer or in more danger if you neighbor has a legally owned gun?" The answer was that you are clearly safer if your neighbor has a legally owned weapon.
They came to this conclusion by going to prisons and asking questions of convicts and how these men chose victims. The criminals do not know who is armed and who is not. This is also probably the reason for recent year's massive increases in violent crime in Austrailia, Canada, and Great Britain. The criminals there know that law abiding citizens have been disarmed by more restrictive gun laws. Great Britain also has court rulings that make it seem like self defence is illegal too.

I agree that law enforcement should be left to the professionals but it is not really the job of the police to prevent crime as much as it is to solve crimes that have been committed.