The remark earlier was correct, the comparison between buying Sudafed or guns. Pseudoephedrine is more difficult to purchase than an AR or AK assault rifles. The decongestant is regulated so you have to buy it from a pharmacist who enters your ID into a database before selling it; you can only buy so much per month. No prescription needed but you have to be old enough and not banned from buying it. This is to prevent the production of methamphetamines. See how well that's working? It isn't. But at least it slows down honest people from treating their allergies.

There are so many guns out there right now that even placing restrictions on purchase won't solve the problem. Buy back programs will, but they'll have to temp owners with pretty hefty purchase prices. Until it expired, the assault weapon ban worked. And the Brady bill restrictions had some effect. But they're all gone, expired or overturned. It's the Wild West out here now.