User blog comment:Tony 1998/GTA V Controversy: Did It Start or Caused the Sandy Hook Elemen. Massacre?/@comment-7815869-20121227030241/@comment-5893191-20130103164524

You can guarantee that the criminals will still be able to get hold of guns, no matter what the laws are for civilians. The only thing that banning guns for civilians does if you look at the big picture, is marginalise the issue of gun crime and make it so people can pretend it is something that doesn't exist, when in actual fact it is still very much a big problem in the poorer areas of our community. That's what happened in the UK in the late 1990s. Also, civilians can't get hold of M4s even in America. Your friend must have mistaken something like an AR-15 or Bushmaster for it. They look very similar but the crucial difference is that none of the civilian versions have automatic fire.