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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think beyond the different lobby groups, its a cultural thing now, America considers itself to be the last great fun culture and it percolates through their whole society.
You can't just walk in and start seizing guns, you need to change their identity.
You also have to consider that the U.S. is one of the larger port nations in the world with vast borders to the north and south, they have a huge illegal gun issue. I would almost feel safe in saying that the illegally distributed U.S. manufactured guns are far outweighed by the guns coming in from the middle east and asia.
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I think that the vast market in the US essentially drives the 'consumer firearms' industry world wide, without the US foriegn gun makers would be smaller long gun and goverment contract manufacturers, i also suspect that most every gun in the US starts out as legal and then flushes through the system, I suspect most illegal guns are stolen, sold on by individual owners or end up in the far less regulated second hand (pawn shop) market, there is really no point in importing illegal guns in the US as it is easier (and therefore cheaper) to just illegally obtain legal ones.