[Golfingnut]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

A couple of things about some comments that have been posted here. The OP said that the handgun that he found was an automatic. That is simply not true. automatic weapons are illegal and I don't believe that there are any automatic handguns. It was simply a semi automatic 9mm.

Secondly, people like to talk about how easy it is to get firearms today. In fact quite the opposite is true. It was much easier to get guns fifty years ago than it is today. You could order semi automatic guns from the Sear Roebuck catalog in the 1950s. It has never been more difficult to legally get a gun in the history of this country. There have never been more gun laws than there are today. Yet, we are seeing more gun violence than ever before. What we are doing is not working. The answer, obviously, is not to make more gun laws. We have been doing that and the problem is getting worse. More gun laws have not helped.

Good points.