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Originally Posted by Ark2
So you are saying that gun running isn't an ongoing, profitable venture? Why do people do it then? Sounds like you are just making another illogical argument here. What T99 is saying is that there is a market for firearms. Simply making firearms illegal does not kill off this market. Exact same thing goes for any illegal substance. If there are people that are willing to pay for it, then you will have people that are willing to sell it illegally.
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Realistically if you ban guns in the US there would be a period of several years to a decade where the old supply of guns was still being held sold illegally, as the supply of guns dwindled as the police confiscated them during arrests, amnesties etc eventually the price of guns would rocket beyond the ability of most criminals to get them and they would be restricted to 'high end' criminals, your mobsters and upper level drug lords.
There would always be some guns, as there are in the UK, but they would be so limited in numbers they would become desperatly expensive and precious in the black market.