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Jenkins: Gun Control That Works

Cities aren't gun-free without politicians willing to take the heat to make them so.

Updated Feb. 12, 2013 7:46 p.m. ET

Gun enthusiasts tend to be well-informed about guns and gun laws, so listening might be a good idea even if you aren't a gun enthusiast.

Gun magazines are metal boxes containing springs and are easy to manufacture at a basement work bench. Regulating magazine capacity, then, may have little effect in the real world. Assault rifles are semiautomatic weapons that function like any other semiautomatic weapon, including millions of semiautomatic pistols in the hands of Americans. Yet Congress wants to ban the rifle-looking...

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