The state of New York isn't afraid to pass gun control. Why would they be? New York City has an overpowering influence over state politics, and folks in the Big Apple love gun control, even if they also have ample evidence right in front of them that it doesn't work.

Because of that, one would imagine that if gun control were going to work anywhere, New York would be one of the places that it did.

Only, we have more evidence that it doesn't work there.

A Bergen man was arrested and charged after police said they found guns and weapon parts in three properties and a box in the Erie Canal.

According to prosecutors, investigators searched Peter Celentano’s house on September 29. They allegedly found two 3D printed pistol frames, weapon parts, ammunition reloading equipment, tools for making guns, and more. Police said they also found 3D printed handguns, weapon parts, and more in two other properties they associated with Celentano.

A whopping 59 of the AR-15 receivers were considered machine guns, which I can see happening. There were also a number of other gun parts, a handgun, magazines, and a pile of other things. Celentano is looking at 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

But the question the state of New York needs to answer is just how this could have happened.

I mean, yeah, these were 3D-printed--there's no mention of whether he had the printer or if he simply purchased these from the party that printed them in the first place--but they're still illegal. If gun control was going to work, why didn't it? 

The short answer is that gun control is dead.

The longer answer is that when there is a demand, someone will fill it. The more demand there is, the more incentive there is for someone to fill that demand. That's just how markets work, and that includes black markets. In fact, black markets are probably the most free market there is, not because there's no government attempt to regulate the goods, but because no one involved cares about those regulations.

If New York can't stop guns and Canada can't stop them, why would any state think they could somehow stop bad people from getting guns by restricting good guys?

It's never going to happen.

Keep in mind that machine guns are the most regulated firearm in the nation. The laws surrounding them are on part with gun control laws pretty much anywhere else in the world. All the rules and regulations you see in other nations on all guns apply to full-auto weapons here.

And yet, we have this.

This isn't even a full-auto switch situation, where someone just slapped something on a gun originally manufactured for lawful gun sales and turned it into an illegal firearm. Oh no, this is something else entirely.

And New York and its plethora of gun control laws couldn't do a blasted thing to prevent it.

59 AR-15 receivers that qualified as machine guns. Think about that for a moment. That's 59 individual violations of the National Firearm Act.

Meanwhile, the rest of us have to bow and scrape and hope that we'll be able to get permission to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a full-auto firearm, if we can get the money to do so in the first place as the price is always climbing due to a finite number of transferable weapons.

But do go on to tell me how making it harder for us to get these weapons keeps them out of the hands of the guy who was found with 59 of them.

I'll wait.