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the problem with your argument is that it's a relatively short road trip into states that don't have strict gunlaws, where criminal organizations are buying cash at gunshows (and without background checks. "legally".) and smuggling them into california relatively easily.

In fact, i would suggest your making an excellent argument that GUN CONTROL LAWS WORK!

Also speaking as someone whose been into 3d printing for ages, I can go to homedepot or lowes or whatever other hardware store, drop around $30-50 dollars on plumbing and hardware and make something that's fully automatic... . The fact that people are not doing- and haven't been doing so- suggests either that it is easier to just buy it.

WHICH IS ANOTHER ARGUMENT THAT SHOWS GUN CONTROL LAWS WORK.

I mean think about it. It's easier and less risky for them to do a day trip into arizona or texas, or wherever, and buy it, than it is to anonymously buy a printer and sell them. (or they're just too dumb.) So clearly, a federal law mandating background checks (and a reasonable holding period to get that to happen,) and closing loopholes around BGC's seems like a no-brainer solution that would ensure firearms aren't going into straw buyer's hands, right?

As for cleaning things up, you are technically right, we're past it. But that's an argument of defeat: any gun control law is better than known. the statistics comparing similar populations internationally compared to US statistics make it blatantly obvious; moreover there are a number of countries that were as bad or worse, that managed it.

But, republicans seem care more about their guns than they do their children. Until that changes, nothing changes.