Impossible to stop the flow of illegal guns, just like drugs

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Banning guns will only hurt the legal gun owners, the law-abiding gun owners like some members of this forum, like my father also, for example. My father had over 100 guns in his collection: he had 4 or 5 revolvers .38 caliber, etc., 3 or 4 of the 9mm pistols, he had several Colt .45 pistols, he even had some old Flintlocks from the 1800s. As for rifles he had everything from Civil War to Vietnam makes and models, and he had the bullet-making equipment to produce his own ammunition for most of his guns.

He had several M1 Carbines that the South Vietnamese used in the war, a Winchester "pump action" shot gun, a German Luger, and atleast 3 Browning automatic rifles with high-powered scopes. I can't even remember all the rifles he had. It was like 100 kinds. He had a license to own every one of them. I must have shot 15 or so of the rifles over the years, and about 5 or 6 of the pistols too.

Illegal guns are flowing across the border from Mexico, El Salvador, and lately Brazil. These are the guns that are mowing down thousands of people a year in Chicago and Los Angeles and Cleveland and El Paso and Phoenix, etc. It is not possible once you have a market (like with crack cocaine or heroin) to intercept this stuff, there is too much money in it.

Takoing away law-abiding citizens' guns is NOT the answer.