Gun control, as we know it, consists of the government restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from waiting periods between when you purchase the gun and when you actually get it, background checks so that high-risk people can't purchase guns through legal channels, and completely banning certain types of guns. There are countless ways for criminals to avoid these government regulations, causing them to only …showed first 75 words of 540 total…

…showed last 75 words of 540 total…the sale of firearms, there must be new techniques that can watch where the guns end up. And if we decide that we can/will not go down that track, we must make that judgement earnestly, and without haste, because it will decide the future of The United State of America as we know it. Bibliography Larson, Erik. "The Story of a Gun", The Atlantic Monthly. January 1993 Pooley, Eric. "Kids with Guns." , New York. August 5, 1991.