My point is not about the sale of military or bigger style arms, it is about the production of them. Many of the most advanced products humans make are designed for the purpose of killing other humans. Pathetic.

I am not saying that if assault and huge caliber weapons aren't legal, that criminals won't get them. I'm saying that if they aren't made available to anyone other than military defense, and are highly scrutinized and inventoried, then criminals won't have them in the future as the ones they have now are slowly taken from them and otherwise rendered unusable. Yes its a long slow process to weed out these weapons, but the alternative is to make more of them to defend ourselves with, which criminals will get, so then we have to make more to defend ourselves with, which criminals will get and so on. Yeah, it sucks, but I feel it needs to start somewhere.