> Illegal guns start as legal guns. To be pedantic, there are very few actually illegal guns. Mostly we are talking about crimes committed by felons who have

> Illegal guns start as legal guns. To be pedantic, there are very few actually illegal guns. Mostly we are talking about crimes committed by felons who have committed prior crimes are no longer legally allowed access to firearms. That same gun, if possessed by a non-felon, would be legal. I don't know if this is or isn't important to the analogy, but I do think it applies.