thought I would drop my two cents in:
I have a friend who was stationed in panama a few years back. His comment on gun control was "Murders are just more quiet there."
IMHO, the idea of making a law to prohibit the owning of a certain type of firearm, has always been kind of foolish... Who are you trying to keep the guns away from? People who will use them to hurt other people, we already have laws against that, they are Hommicide, Assault w/ fire arm, and on the lower end of the threshhold, one could say poaching...
Why make a law to control people who allready see fit to break it? You think a gang banger's going to turn in his assault rifle because the government says so? no, he says "Yay, less competition, now that all the people who obey the law have turned in their rifles, I got the biggest gun in town."
Foolishness... the day a law like that passes, I will call the police and report my weapons stolen. I can do a lot of damage at 6'5" w/ a baseball bat... but if I can't even get close enough to the person breaking into my home, well, it aint gonna matter. (Granted, I don't need an assault rifle to defend my home) But it is an erosion of rights, and should be fought.