A matching set was confiscated from a home by the NYPD during a family dispute call the other day in Brooklyn:

But they're evil jackbooted Republican sympathizers keeping minorities down and need to be defunded, amirite?

Things have now changed where the situation is that won't do much good anyhow.

AR-15's are not doing the major damage anymore, handguns are, by more than a mile. Enormous amount of violence executed by them, far far exceeding any school shootings. Especially handguns in the hand of people who have no training in the use of them, and including the love and glorification of them in hiphop culture. It's not just urban gang members or wannabe gang members, a lot of domestic violence now ends up with whole families dead, from handgun use, like nearly every day.

Nobody is going to go into people's homes and take away the mass quantities of handguns purchased in the last year and a half and win any election in the forseeable future.

(I was looking about a month ago, and I was shocked to see it - I'd estimate about 25% of the women's handbags currently being sold on Amazon have a front pocket for handgun, they actually call them handgun pockets.)

Many of liberal friends of everyone here probably helped the total sales but they are not going to admit it that they did that when millennials were protesting in the streets to defund police and fuck Joe Biden. And they are not going to admit it when ATF says if you bought a handgun in 2020 or 2021, you need to fill out this form, it's not going to happen. All those handguns are now added to the huge number of guns Americans already owned and can easily be resold and stolen.

Then throw in that ghost guns are the major new problem. Just read that in the big blue cities, more and more ghost guns are what police are finding in the execution of crimes. You make owners of manufactured handguns register them, it will just fuel the growth of people building ghost guns for self-protection or profit.

The NRA doesn't even matter anymore and they know it.

The more crime and the more localities have a hard time finding people to become police or other law enforcement, the more ordinary people will buy handguns. People who aren't trained to use them.

The really odd thing is that the crazy unhinged like the guy who shot Gabbie Giffords, who would be found by a longer waiting period, more and more of those kind seem to be using knives to attack or just punching people in the face or bashing their head in with a cinder block, and in public  I'm sure a lot of average women read these stories and decide their husband is right: they never wanted one before, but they need a handgun along with the purse that makes it easily accessible while alone on the street. Especially with fewer cops around.

It's no different than giving a kid the keys to your car, which also can be a deadly weapon, and for which we long ago learned to accept we are to be responsible for those deadly weapons. Drunk driver's licenses to drive are taken away and we learned to accept that. A well-regulated militia of the 2nd amendment would not only be trained in the use of its weapons they make sure they are safe-guarded and be responsible for them, that's the right.

Are we going to hear more about this mystery? I doubt it.