Because that's what politicians do. Tons of talk about banning "weapons of war" that are rarely used to kill anyone, meanwhile handguns are used for murder/suic

Because that's what politicians do. Tons of talk about banning "weapons of war" that are rarely used to kill anyone, meanwhile handguns are used for murder/suicide much more often, but they rarely make the news because they aren't scary looking, and because the majority of crimes with them are committed by minorities, so Democrats don't want more restrictions on them. And before anyone says it, no, that last part is not some right-wing racist conspiracy. A couple of years ago in Maryland, the governor wanted harsher punishments for people using handguns to commit crimes because of how bad gun violence is in Baltimore, and the state Democrats said it was a racist policy because it would mostly affect minorities. They didn't want to seem soft on gun violence though, so they banned bump stocks, which have never been used to commit a crime in Maryland, and which the ATF says are trivial to reproduce using belt loops and rubber bands.