Kinda a lightweight article. But it does show that shotguns kill more every year than assault rifles (leftest daffynition). And look at handguns.
So, the banning will never stop once they get that first pickle out of the jar.
Survival rate from being shot with a handgun is much higher than if a shotgun is used.
Germans in WWI knew this. Look up `trench gun’.
It's important for people to understand that their strategy is one of incrementalism. Their goal is a complete ban on private ownership of firearms (and anything else that can be construed as a weapon, like knives in Britain). They want to accomplish this one "sensible" gun law at a time. The reason they won't punish criminal misuse of weapons is because criminals, like other types of human trash are large and important constituency groups for politicians. That and the fact that the self-serving, rapacious, greedy and corrupt American political class fervently believes that the government should have a monopoly on the use of violence. There has never been a more important time in our country's history for citizens to own personal weapons and acquire skill in their use. Half of American society is literally descending into barbarism, and there's great danger ahead.