Gun Control & RKBA

Any step taken will be so ineffectual and so contentious that it will probably be reversed and mocked for years as a total failure... that's the most likely outcome until the power to change it is actually taken completely out of the hands of pro-gun people.

As for shotguns, there ARE a lot, but there's between 15-20 million MORE handguns... and they don't dominate crime stats because there's a LOT of crime that requires a concealed gun... shotguns won't replace hang guns in a huge chunk of those crimes...

Suicides are one shot affairs, but they're almost all done with handguns... something like 60%... as for spree killing, there's been 994 mass shooting in America in the last 1,004 days... well that was up to the 2nd of October, so there's been a few more... MAking them less deadly would be great! And realistically, people don't TYPICALLY commit crimes with guns that have to be reloaded after every shot, for all the obvious reasons... it does happen, but not nearly s much as with hand guns...

"Of all firearm-related crime, 86 percent involved handguns."

vs

"Only one in six Americans own handguns."

Some data from 2011:

8,583 were murdered with guns
6,220 were with hand guns
356 were with shotguns
323 with rifles

The idea that suddenly another 5000 people would be murdered with rifles and shotguns seems a bit far fetched to me...

For firearm suicides, it is estimated that handguns are used twice as often (69 percent) as rifles and shotguns.

More info:

http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/hgbanfs.htm
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8