This is not a rhetorical question we need to Google.  The answer is a clear “NO”.  And every police department’s evidence locker is full of these stolen, black market weapons.   

So that means there really is no regulation of hand guns in our society.  The façade of regulation of hand guns is, in fact,  a charade perpetrated on the guileless public. Suggesting that murders committed with handguns just represents "mis-use" of handguns is a self-delusional red herring.

There is a critical disconnect in the USA’s NRA bought-and-paid-for federal and state gun regulations.   Gun – especially hand gun – legislation is basically a diversionary, placatory hoax.  As the level of national mayhem heightens, all the permits, background checks, and concealed carry rules are merely intentionally distracting window dressing – because the vast majority of guns used in crimes aren’t registered to the killer.  And of course, even registered hand guns kill effectively in a fit of passion or in a robbery.  Handguns are so lethal, and so easy to hold and use in close quarters and their deadly force so permanent, that handguns should be completely out of civilian circulation just because their ease of use threshold is too low. Consider how many murders are committed with a knife or a club or a rifle – all of which are effective killing weapons, but which take more energy, thought, and time to carry and use.  Duelers used pistols.   Pistols have cache.  Every bravado boasting Wayne Western used hand guns as the "force".  Face to face at High Noon.   Satisfying expulsion.  Tip up the barrel and smell the curling smoke.  

Dirty Harry "made his day" not with a rifle, but with the phallic flung fatal force of a pistol's ejection.   ( Sudhir, that ones for you)
 

 The US, and the world, is flooded with cheap guns – and these guns move in an unregulated underground economy.  Since it isn’t a registered gun that is in the hands of 7 Eleven stick up men – or the kid with the 45 on Coventry – even discussing this state’s rules vs that state’s rules is hypocritical – because such discussion avoids the real truth, the real problem – the allowance by the federal government of mass domestic manufacture and import of handguns.  The only practical way to diminish hand gun violence is through constriction of handgun availability at the top level of the mercantile channel.

“Control” of handguns through “legislation” is also a hypocritical farce  because, with our federal narcotic drug “control” policy the US takes an opposite approach.  Federal narcotic rules don’t allow for “registered” users of cocaine or heroin,  instead federal rules ban such narcotics categorically.

 I believe that both gun and narcotic control policies should be reversed – because narcotics are (more) addictive (becoming a medical dependency problem for the user) than hand guns and inexpensively provided narcotics damage only the user – not an innocent party as is the case when shot.   Narcotics are not an offensive weapon.  Our federal and state policies should allow registered narcotic users to access inexpensive government distributed narcotics, and our federal and state policies should ban outright private ownership of all handguns. 

By the way, since we are sure that we have the constitutional right to carry heat for self defense, what’s wrong with permitting hand grenades (and cyanide too)  for good measure?

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