Why is it so difficult for the United States to control guns?

If the early gun culture is out of the needs of people and national security. Then with the development of American gun manufacturers, gun culture has become a source of wealth for this industry. More people play with guns, more people buy guns, and business is naturally good. Today, the gun trade in America has become a big business. According to statistics, there are about 300,000 arms dealers in the United States engaged in gun trading. It is estimated that the annual trading volume is between 3 million and 5 million, and gun manufacturers make huge profits from gun trading every year. In addition, gun manufacturers have strong political power in the United States and can even influence the presidential election in the United States. This also explains why Americans are ambivalent about guns. On the one hand, they are worried about more than 200 million guns circulating in this country based on freedom; On the other hand, even the Democratic candidate Obama who advocates gun control can do nothing.

In the face of frequent shootings, American society is increasingly unbearable. Isn't there another amazing shoot recently? This serious shooting incident in the western American city of Las Vegas has confirmed 59 deaths and more than 527 injuries, making it the largest single shooting incident in American history. In fact, the United States does not lack laws to restrict people's abuse of guns. For example, the Federal Firearms Act, the Firearms Control Act, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Offensive Weapons Prohibition Act. In addition to federal laws, there are some local gun control measures. Although people in Washington, D.C. and Illinois can carry guns, they must be visible at a glance and cannot be hidden. However, these laws and measures failed to stop the shooting and bloodshed. So, what makes it so difficult for the United States to control guns?

As we all know, the weapons manufacturing industry in the United States is extremely developed. Huge production capacity must have sufficient market support. Although there are a large number of international arms transactions, they are mainly heavy high-tech weapons. In contrast, in the international arms market, the sales of American-made firearms are not much. In fact, there are few other sales channels except that the allied forces will purchase some. After all, with the cheap and abundant killing artifact like AK-47, things that are expensive and not easy to use in the United States are floating clouds. Compared with those high-tech heavy weapons that are not opened for three years. The gun manufacturing industry in the United States is in an embarrassing state of barely living. Therefore, if the American gun manufacturing industry wants to survive, it must rely entirely on the domestic gun market.

As the world's top military force, the United States will not tolerate the shortcomings of weapons technology. Even relatively simple firearms must maintain sufficient R&D and manufacturing capacity. However, the problem is that, like other American military enterprises, gun manufacturers are also privately owned. Apart from regular procurement, the government does not bear other expenses, which is largely due to their arbitrariness. But after all, we must give them a chance to live. Otherwise, when it's time to buy Barrett, what if the manufacturer goes bankrupt? So you can find that almost all American military firearms can be found in civilian versions. Some civilian versions of firearms are even more powerful and accurate than military versions, and high-end users are more willing to spend money than military versions ("Barrett" 82A 1 price of sniper rifles 12000 USD), nothing else.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the huge domestic civilian gun market in the United States is to support the army with the people. Under the premise of limited national defense purchases, gun manufacturers rely on American consumers, not only making a good living, but also making huge profits to support their new product development. Moreover, the huge users also provide a lot of use evaluation and feedback information for manufacturers. This is also crucial for gun manufacturers. Generally speaking, gun management in the United States seems to be only a civil safety issue. In fact, it involves the core interests of the huge American military industry system. Therefore, the resistance to gun control is naturally very strong, and the president of the United States is of course helpless. The arms industry group is an important force behind the American political group, and its powerful influence can be imagined. Therefore, Lao Gao believes that it is basically impossible for the United States to control guns. What's more, the right to hold a gun is a basic right protected by the Constitution.

At this time, some people will think that whether the United States controls guns or not has nothing to do with China. The answer is of course relevant! You know, China's gun design ability and production technology have always been relatively poor. Except for military firearms, which need a lot of equipment, other types of firearms have various problems. For example, the widely criticized Type 92 pistol has poor workmanship and the magazine is stuck. What's even more ridiculous is that the magazine of the same type of gun can't be universal. The reason is that the production quantity is small and the purchase price is too low (all are official purchases, and the export price is obviously much higher). Therefore, in order to comprehensively improve the research and development ability of firearms in China, it is necessary to accept market inspection (accepting inspection also means making big money). This means that we should sell our products (strong products) and Xie abroad as much as possible, and the American market is an excellent target. In fact, China's gun exports to the United States are so large that the United States has specially revised the gun control law to restrict China's guns from entering the American market. At present, however, the firearms exported from China are either old 56 or imitations (American M191pistol, Siegel pistol, Luger pistol and CQ series assault rifles). Lao Gao thinks that China, as a military industrial power, must have its own famous gun brand, so we might as well use the American market to verify our products. Not only can we get enough profits from the gun market of overseas developed countries to develop ourselves (the greater the benefits, the more we can mobilize people's enthusiasm), but we can also get a lot of feedback data from overseas users (the more we use, the more we can find problems). Isn't it a shortcut to attack my jade with stones from other mountains As for the consequences of the proliferation of guns in the United States, it is better to leave them to the Americans themselves.