So it's cool and all that people are building guns and making it harder to restrict access. But what bugs me about these sorts of posts seem to miss the point that a lot of DIY gun building is pretty heavily reliant on the fact that the 'firearm' part of a gun is often relatively easy to make. This whole process becomes a lot harder if pressure bearing components were regulated as elsewhere.

I think increased regulation could be quite effective at slowing/stopping people from getting guns they'd use for legitimate purposes, self defense, target shooting, hunting etc. Those all require quality parts for durability and usability. But saturday night specials and assassination weapons would remain basically unstoppable. For example, the gun used to kill Shinzo Abe. I don't think people would really shoot that for fun, hunting or clays or something. Ok, the people on this sub would, but gunnietrust folks are... special. But that sort of weapon, quick and dirty, good for a few rounds at close range. Totally impossible to stop people.