Well, I had a goodly selection of handguns before the ban, and none of them were ever involved in crime while they were in MY possession. On the other paw, there is plenty of evidence that handguns that had been surrendered to the officers of law and order have turned up occasionally in hands of criminals, although I can't for the life of me understand just how that could have happened

The majority of armed crime is still carried out with shotguns, rather than the handguns that we no longer own. It's true that there remains a quantifiable amount of use of replicas of one kind or another, but I've yet to see ANY crime committed by a crook wielding a Colt Model of 1873, or Broomhandle Mauser.

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