(December 27, 2012 at 2:28 am)Rhythm Wrote: State's laws, and county/city ordinances are actually the stringent ones Ryan, because they can be (they aren't as limited by the 2nd as the Fed is). Our states regulations are ineffective though (most of them anyway- the prevalence of handguns as opposed to say, assault rifles used in the commission of a crime might suggest that some regulations work - on the other hand...handguns are more handy for the commission of crimes...so it may not) but I'm not sure that increasing the arm of the federal government is really going to address that.
The problem is that, even if some states have stringent restrictions, it does little to stop interstate trafficking from states which do not. The DC handguns ban was ineffective in large part because all you have to do is step over the Potomac into Virginia, where gun control is a joke.