Guns went from being a tool to fight against an organized state to a tool used to destabilize interior affiliations. Not sure if the transition is rooted more in the prevalence of handguns or the spike in individual rifle lethality (compare the rate of fire of a standard-issue WW1 rifle with a modern semi-auto magazine-fed rifle), but gun technology advanced to the point where they no longer require masses of armed people to be effective, but rather a single one can be used against a mass of people quite effectively. Maybe the most effective thing is to ban all magazines?
Guns went from being a tool to fight against an organized state to a tool used to destabilize interior affiliations. Not sure if the transition is rooted more in the prevalence of handguns or the spike in individual rifle lethality (compare the rate of fire of a standard-issue WW1 rifle with a modern semi-auto magazine-fed rifle), but gun technology advanced to the point where they no longer require masses of armed people to be effective, but rather a single one can be used against a mass of people quite effectively. Maybe the most effective thing is to ban all magazines?