Quote from futurecurrents:
Well then maybe we need to ban external magazines altogether. An internal magazine of five should be plenty for hunting. Handguns should also be banned. No good reason for them. A shotgun is perfectly adequate for home defense. The close-quarter argument is a feeble one at best.
Let's say handguns are banned. Do you really think they will just disappear from the market? Com'on now, you can't have your head that far in the clouds. Bans don't work. How can you argue that having weed illegal does nothing to stop sales or use, and yet seem to think this issue will be any different? Where there is a market there will be someone to feed that market. Your ban will remove handguns from most law biding citizens, criminals will ignore the law completely, and the pissed off husband will blast his wife with a shotgun instead of a pistol. Where's the upside?