re ban all firearms firearms tend to fall into this low dollar pound area it would not be economic to smuggle them in all production would have to be local there are not all that many people who have both the skill and motivation to assemble worthwhile firearms from scratch high ranking crime figures could obtain imported uzis and such but the average person and average thug would be lucky to get a zip gun and would pay through the nose for it this is not borne out of reality the old soviet union had a very serious domestic handgun and submachinegun trade guns that were of commercial grade because they were produced in honest to goodness machineshops why would all production have to be local don t we have a road system that is the envy of the world i seem to recall incidents in the past where chinese entreprenaurs attempted to smuggle ak s semi autos into this country to get around import number limitations may have been gunweek where i read that years ago any person with high school drafting skills and vocational school machineshop training could produce a submachinegun you talk about the average person not being able get even a zip gun well now think of all that private cnc controlled machinery that is not being used for shifts a day do you think that if guns were being sold on the black market for say an enterprising mechanical engineer could be using that machinery to produce workable submachineguns for sale after all gunweek had an article and pictures on how batf was looking for the manufacturer of quite efficient silencers that were of commercial quality and finish look at it this way of the u s households have a handgun say at least half of those keep one for self defense you are talking a potential market of of tens of millions of people who would seek firearms for the purpose of self preservation only a fool would believe that market would not be filled regardless of government prohibitions
