It is very easy for a criminal to get an Illegal gun*. gun control only hurts the legit/honest ppl. Criminals who have previous multiple violent crimes should not be let out of jail. My friend was killed,(by pipes etc) his killers had a laundry list of many violent crimes, the previous crime they did b4 they killed him should have gotten them 20+ years, they were out in 1. My buddy was with someone they didnt like, they also later killed the other guy too(curbbed him and threw his body in front of a mac truck on I95 chester pa) My bff's father was killed circa 1991, his killers same thing, out on parole for a week, was supposedly serving a long sentence. So your answer is "Gun control" ok, for arguments sake, how to u propose to do it? Stop sales of guns 100%?? are drug sales not 100% illegal? and better yet, what do you intend to do when a person is caught with a gun that should not have 1?? I am not trying to be a smart ass, just asking for a thought out plan how to keep guns out of criminals.Straw purchases is one way they get them, they get a GF or souse top buy them with a clean record and give them to the thug. They dont goto jail either. The genie is out of the bottle, most basic semi auto guns designs have been around for over 100 yrs. If you bann the sale of guns in the usa(which will never happen without ww3) criminals will still get guns across the boarders and without any type of walls, truck loads will come in, much like drugs. Gun laws hurt the honest ppl. The thugs are going to do crime no matter what. Yes we shouldn't make it easier for them to get guns, we should make it harder for them to get guns and being locked up is a pretty good way to keep them from getting guns!!!!