Thread: Overall length Saga continues

Originally Posted by tanqueray

Ah.. yes... but if you apply the logic of my original post, why do we even need pistol specific laws? Crims can and do make pistol sized firearms from rifles and shotguns. Whether they have a rifle, shortened rifle or pistol, they’re breaking the law, and naturally they’d be inclined to shorten whatever they can get their hands on anyway. Licensed firearm owners should be conducting themselves within the law, regardless of whether they’re using a 20mm cannon or a derringer.

It's based around the belief that pistols are:

A - Predominantly for defensive use, and the authorities want to maintain their own monopoly on who is accepted to have guns for defensive use

B - Easily concealable, making them suitable for criminal use.

The original fear that the authorities had with pistols, was the idea that they would be used against them in a soclialist/communist revolution. They were shit scared that what happened in the Russian Empire in 1917 would happen in western nations.