Criminals don't obey the law.

We've said that time and time again, with the usual suspects not really understanding what that actually means. They argue that by that logic, we shouldn't have laws against robbery or murder. That's because they're willfully missing the point. Those laws prevent actions that directly impact others against their will, while not really doing anything to good, decent people.

Gun control laws, however, only impact those good, decent folks while having pretty much no real impact on the criminals in question.

Take New York (please?) as an example. They have tons of gun control laws, and yet, this guy just arrested in Albany, New York allegedly treated all of those laws as if they were a joke.

On January 8, 2025, Albany police arrested Demetrio Daga, 42, following a year-long investigation into ghost gun manufacturing. Search warrants executed at two properties revealed a large-scale operation involving 3D printers, gun parts, and an arsenal of weapons, including 13 ghost handguns, 22 ghost AR-style rifles, and 18 serialized rifles.

Authorities also seized over 200 3D-printed gun components, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, and body armor.

So 40 AR-style rifles, 13 handguns, and no regard for the laws prohibiting those rifles or "ghost guns" in the least.

Funny how that shakes out, isn't it?

And keep in mind that this is after a year-long investigation into making guns. That means it's probably not a case of him just building guns for his own personal amusement. No, he was likely suspected of making them for sale, though that's not spelled out above.

Regardless, AR-style rifles are tightly controlled in New York state with the NY SAFE Act. So-called ghost guns are outright banned in the state.

If gun control laws worked as advertised, then there's no chance Daga would have any of those firearms. Yet he's facing charges for all of them, apparently, as well as 200 3D-printed components, so-called "high-capacity magazines"--which are also banned in the state--and body armor; which is also controlled.

But what those laws did successfully do is prevent law-abiding folks who would have done nothing illegal from also making their own firearms. The guy down the street who likes to tinker with stuff and likes guns can't lawfully tinker with stuff by building his own firearm lawfully. Not as current law stands, anyway.

So someone who cares nothing about the law will keep doing what they're doing, but good, decent, law-abiding folks can't do it.

That's the issue with gun control laws in general. They don't prevent people from doing things. They prevent non-criminals from doing things, which becomes a massive problem when you're talking about things that create a disparity between criminals and their potential targets. We should be at least as well armed as the people who want to victimize us.

And since they don't care about the laws and it doesn't seem to even slow them down, then the laws in question need to go. New York has the toughest "ghost gun" laws on the books, and what have they accomplished really? Pretty much nothing of any real benefit.