Going from thousands a day to 20 or 30 is still a huge drop in availability.

@MikeFlora
That's just one guy. Driving an industry, even a splinter, special interest one underground won't get rid of it. Demand for the product will drive the number of manufacturers.

@bigpawbullets Not if there is a alternative weapon that, while not a first choice, can fulfil the need.

@MikeFlora
True that. It's actually quite a good point. The mystique of the "assault rifle". Remove that from the equation. Would the "lone wolf" young man, outcast and/or bullied, potential shooter simply not act out if the only weapon was a bolt action rifle or double barreled shotgun. Hmmmmm.

@bigpawbullets Probably not, but less people might get shot.

I'm not talking all guns, just the ones that do the most damage.

@MikeFlora
Well a trained person with a low calibre rifle has the potential to do more damage than an untrained person with a high calibre rifle. So skill is one factor. Also hunting rifles are larger calibre than an AR-15 so surely they would be the first to target.

This whole idea of more powerful is quite abstract since it won't stop the majority of shootings anyway. It won't even come close.

@Lancer Do the most damage, doesn't necessarily mean the most powerful.
I read a article the other day about a English sniper now has the record for the longest kill shot 2.2 miles, that doesn't even seem possible. It did say he had a spotter that was doing the calculations for him

@MikeFlora
It's definitely possible. I talked to an SAS soldier who told me that the biggest threat to British soldiers during the Afghan war was Enfield rifles. They were given to the Afghans by the British to fight the Russians but due to the circumstances the Afghans who had trained since they were children to shoot this rifle were so accurate that they could pick off British troops from a mile away without any scopes, they were so used to long distance shooting which compensated for the wind, humidity and other factors that it became instinctual to them.

It is possible, just would take time before it had any real impact.

Not asking to stop all guns being made.

@MikeFlora I get that, you're still asking them to decrease profits.

@educatedredneck Not necessarily, they can make more of the other kinds of guns, they could make more money selling more of the other guns.