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user-inactivated  ·  4338 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the *actual* reason for some guns to be legal and others to be illegal?

    Pistols can of course still be used to commit crime but it's harder to commit mass murder with one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre#Attacks

    Cho used two firearms during the attacks: a .22-caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic Glock 19 handgun.

33 dead and 23 injured.