As an aside, I really don't think a ban of any kind is going to work, nor is a real solution. Based on production data from firearm manufacturers, there are roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010. Of these, about 100 million are handguns.
I don't know what the current statistics are but it is much higher now. I've heard reports from California, to Oklamhoma, that the majority of people that have been in doing the run on the gun shops buying up firearms, isn't your old crotchity redneck types. 80% of the customers were new to firearms. That made me ask around my local shops and the range I frequent. Sure enough, the majority of the people that have been buying up the firearms, are new shooters, and that's saying something.
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