I wouldn’t necessarily say ‘empty-handled’.
Anyone can look at the issue and say that banning the sale of any bullet that would work with the AR15 or ‘crisis-guns’ would be a logical move. You’d have people manufacturing their own ammo, but the cut on sales would probably settle the problem in less than a year.
Course, you’d go to your local ‘dealer’ and purchase ammo but it’d be double and triple of what you pay currently.
If you use the FBI figures....particularly in Chicago deaths...95-percent are handgun deaths...NOT assault weapons. All this assault rifle chatter is worthless.
I was looking the other day at Alabama statistics for 2015, and came to note that 24-percent of all deaths that involved a weapon, came to it being a relative who shot you. Maybe we should ban relatives as well.
Banning relatives would be an excellent idea. At least in many modern families.