>>>How can banning the manufacture of high capacity weapons for all but military or civillian use possibly hurt?
>>>If it saves one life, it was worth the effort, and over time it might save thousands of lives.
>>>>>>>>>There is absolutely no justification for manfacturing this kind of weapon for other than military or police use.
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>>>>Your issue in the US is that lots of weapons with no obvious civilian application are legally out there.
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>>>Why is that not a sensible thing to do?
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>>As soon as they are used, more than a few will be lost. Yugoslavian conflict and/or Soviet withdraw were the biggest reasons of weapon # hike in the '90ies. And there always will be the "civilized" versions created for solid reasons (easy manufacturing, well tested, ammo cheap) which can be brought up to military grade again...
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>That sounds like "There are a million available, so we might as well make it two million."
>What's wrong with "There are a million available, and let's try to keep it at that?"

You will drive up the price, but not too much. You are tweaking the wrong side of economics. Make carrying such a gun or keeping it on premise a crime. Make any crime using a military grade weapon a higher risk by driving up sentences via mandatory addition.In case self defense was done with a military weapon and the weapon cannot be explained legally, make a case. Do searches for the weapons ONLY, not trying to make a case if anything else was found - searches without a warrant might cause less problems then.