The N.R.A., through their influence on a group of Congressmen in Washington, have managed to prevent any legislation, regulating weapons, on a Federal scale. Local regulations, as in Chicago, are thwarted by the fact that any resident of Chicago can cross the street to another jurisdiction and purchase any quantity he or she chooses.
The situation is little different in other States; it might be more convenient to take a vehicle to another jurisdiction to purchase one's weapons.
Even though it is the very actions of the N.R.A. that has rendered Chicago's efforts to control the availability of guns useless, the N.R.A. uses Chicago to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of any legislation whatsoever.
The question should be asked is, if Federal gun control legislation is ineffective, why does the N.R.A. spend millions, each year, in buying legislators? Why don't they save their money and pass those ineffective laws?
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