Lew Hodgett wrote:

Being a capitalist kind of guy, I've have tongue in cheek suggested
that the way to get a handle on hand guns is to tax the ammunition at
the rate of $10/cartridge.

It would certainly have an affect on ammunition availability as well
as the hand gun violence here in L/A where on an average week, there
will be 6-8 hand gun killings.

Being a Socialist kind of guy, Senator Patrick Monyhan suggested much the
same thing years ago. He said "We have a 200-year supply of guns on the
street, but only a ten-year supply of ammunitition."

Your last statement kind of begs the question - the six to eight handgun
killings per week in your town leaves out the criterium of whether the
deceased needed killing.