Commercial manufacturers make firearms similar to the old military models.
Did Nancy Lanza make firearms available to her son because she herself was a gun enthusiast?
The most recent incarnation is the effort to divest public pension and retirement plans from companies that make firearms.
Throughout Obama's Presidency, even as he's done nothing to make firearms less freely available, the N.R.A. has maintained that he is coming for America's guns.
Fresh from persuading a $5 billion pension fund in Chicago to divest from companies that make firearms, the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, on Thursday urged the chief executives of two major banks to stop financing companies "that profit from gun violence".
They have emphasized what they see as a need to make firearms more available, and their discussions have included increasing access to guns for teachers and other school personnel.
In the United States, we build barriers on bridges, but have fewer barriers to the quick access to guns: "In the U.S. one of the most straightforward things to do to prevent suicide is to make firearms less accessible," Dr. Gunnell said.
Even more concerning, it has the potential to make firearms more readily available to people who are not allowed to possess them," said Wenyao Xu, lead author of the study.
