From Scrappleface:
In an effort to reduce gun violence nationwide, Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Obama administration will reinstate the Clinton-era assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, adding new provisions to make it even more effective at saving lives.
Under the revised rules, people who intend to commit crimes with stolen guns, for example, will first need to register those
weapons with the federal government.
“Guns don’t kill people,” said Mr. Holder, “Unregistered, stolen guns kill people. Once we have a list of all of the guns owned by potential criminals, it will be much easier to track down the origin of a weapon that’s been used in a robbery or murder.”
The Justice Department plans to open illegal gun registration kiosks in pawn shops, urban parking garages and abandoned buildings in high-profile locations to make the registration process “as easy and painless as possible.”
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Its right that its usually the unregistered weapons that kill people. The criminals think that the unregistered weapons will not get traced to them. This emboldens them even more to commit the heinous crimes. If we can somehow plug the supply of unregistered weapons(though quite difficult), the crime rate will definitely come down.