BillD,

YOU were the one stating "and, your 1 & 2 are nitpicking, semantic avoidance of my points. The FACT is that gun laws are weak in Virginia and tight in DC.". I was replying to YOU. If the circumstances are different, why would you want the same solution, especially where it has been shown NOT to work?

"...and the prohibitions against various things like conversion kits are happily obeyed by criminals, hmmm?"

YOU are the one stating that if we pass laws the problem will be solved. Since anyone can make a gun with 2 pipes, a 2x4 ( or part of one) and a nail, ( as the US made and dropped to the French Resistance in WWII) the fact that criminals will NOT obey the law is even more reason NOT to have additional unenforcable laws.

Or will the criminals suddenly obey the law if it is serious enough?

It seems to me that someone willing to murder will not obey other laws, and the facts of the effects of past legislation shows me to be correct.