Gun control, creativity and...
...good old American know-how.
As was demonstrated during the last AWB, banning a product will motivate those with a financial incentive to modify the product so as to be compliant with the letter of the law.
An analogy from mid '60s NASCAR building:
The governing body-> sets a rule mandating maximum capacities for gas tanks.
Pit crews-> before refueling during the first pits stop, use compressed air to bulge gas tanks.
The governing body-> begins measuring gas tank capacities before and after the race.
Mechanics-> run a 1" diameter gas line around the cars a few times netting a few extra gallons.
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On it goes, the fundamentals of changing peripheral attributes of a device or system so as to meet the letter of the law devise by those with insufficient knowledge of the device or system provide a challenge for mechanical engineers.
Bravo!
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...'create a useful and effective gun law' for how long??? At least 40 years???
It seems we haven't made a good one yet because the control folks keep telling us we need a new one... and another...
What is it that Einstein said about repeating actions and expecting different results????
<---- me
<----Einstein...a Scotsman who said, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." 
...others will eventual learn as well as you have. 
...(which may be expressed in a number of ways) goes to the overall evidence that the "control" part of gun control is a myth.
What are these folks? Hard of learning?
...but it was quoted once by Mr Scot in the Original Series. 
Of course you'd think that being someone who writes for a living, I'd be better at it.
Perhaps I'll write better when my past 24 hours include a better ratio of hours asleep to hours flying. 
Jetsetter, you
...fly for fun to top vacation destinations. I fly with 180 other sardines in coach via USWhere? just to go to work.
OTOH I met Richard Simmons once. 
I think he has big feet too, he almost stepped on my foot.
And unfortunately for those rank-and-file partisans who are okay with their side having that absolute power (read: kicking down doors to collect those scary black guns), they fail to acknowledge that power may shift to a side with far more sinister intentions.
Republi-fascist plutocracy with an unarmed populace at its feet, anyone?
...interests me more than being an engineer is all-being master of time, space and dimensions.
...that absolute power thought again. 
...an icon that conveys to the alerter...
GETTING HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM.
...I find myself considering a most confusing and feebly worded alert on a very abstruse and possibly sarcastic to third power post. First a flip a coin on whether to ditch and be excused, leaving this to confused and annoy another, or take a guess at these layers of meanings. Should the latter be the decision, I usually flip again to decide between leave and hide. Here's the coin.
...the first time I read it: "The gun nut meme is beyond played out. There is nothing wrong with this post. In addition, this alert borders on abuse of the system. Mods please take note."
There is no need to engineer around what can't happen.
... this fully-automatic weapon
... can be made with off the shelf plumbing parts, a drill press and a few hand tools. The plans are on the Internet and you can order the full-scale cutting templates on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/P.-A.-Luty/e/B001KILFNM
Or, were you planning on banning drill presses as well?
Even Britain has gun deaths ( a whopping 35!) But an outright ban on the weapons I described combined with registration and heavy limits on storage and use of guns would almost eliminated u.s. gun crime. And gun manufacturers would not be able to work around my limits
And using a tool to swap the magazin is certainly more cumbersome
Not as deadly, sorry
I like that.
