Absolutely correct. Criminals commit crimes with stolen weapons, primarily. So why not make the weapons an easier legal entity to regulate? Harder to get generally translates to harder to steal. If weapons took longer to get based on lethality, owners would have an incentive to better protect their arsenals from theft. Personally, I have seen plenty of gun owners with them literally strewn around the house. Easy pickings for a burglar, and as mentioned earlier, a steady demand. Gun owners bear the responsibility to protect society from their arsenals as well as enjoy them.
Im not sure that all guns are stolen, I have never met anyone who has had one of their guns stolen. Obviously it happens, no doubt. I just havent known anyone. With that said all my weapons are locked in vaults and fast action style safes. Making guns harder to get for me either based on lethality or not, will not make them any easier or harder to rob. And if you are talking about the cost of these hard to get guns making their owners be more likely to lock them up, perhaps. But of the many people I personally know, everyone locks up even their cheap guns. Then the based on lethality idea, is that round count, bullet size, muzle velocity, energy, all semiautos, big bolt guns, shotguns, small fast overpenatrating calibers, slow hard hitting ones???? The only thing that makes my ar leathal is the capacity, when compared to my 12 gauge with slugs, my 300 h&h is lethally accurate out to 1000 yards, my 22LR will penetrate most body armor. In fact the most lethal thing by a long shot in my arsenal would be my cold steel machete. Edged weapons are far and away many times more deadly than any bullet. But thats for a different thread.
Mike
