I served in the Army and worked for Greenville Country and SLED. But my opinion is based on seeing people killed by assault weapons. When I was working in corrections, inmates would tell (brag) about how easy it was to convert a weapon into a fully automatic.
America's love of guns are killing us and we have the highest murder rates by guns in the world. I'm not against owning guns but the guns owned should be of practical use and application.
Again you only point out the fact that the criminals are doing illegal shit, what a big surprise. This is the thing that pisses me off most about the left, the people that follow the law, do the right thing are the ones that are penalized, because a percentage of individuals doesn't play be the rules. What good does it do me if the government decides to take away my gun when the criminal gets one anyway via illegal means? All you are doing is disarming law abiding citizens who have the RIGHT to bear arms. Here let me say that again the RIGHT to bear arms.
And again we get this practical use and application non-sense, who exactly is going to decide that?
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
This is all I have to say to the gun grabbers : ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!