[brbethke]

It works, too. If you can just increase the expense and hassle associated with doing something, most people will say, "Aw, forget this," and go do something else. Eventually there won't be a fight over whether to ban guns, because there will be so few people left who want to own them.

[COBOL2Java]

Or perhaps what the gun grabbers want to happen is this: make it more difficult for legal gun owners to practice, thereby increasing the chance for an accident to occur. Then they can say "See? See? Only law enforcement should be permitted to own guns! They're dangerous in the hands of unskilled civilians!"