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If firearm laws, in general, were written based on logic, then you'd figure that various countries would have similar ideas on how to regulate them. This is not the case.
Many countries, for instance, impose limits on the exact caliber of the firearms citizens can own. Disregarding the fact that the diameter of the bullet being fired is basically irrelevant, why is it that in Canada, handguns firing .25 or .32 caliber bullets are banned, yet in Australia, it's anything above 9mm? In India, they specifically prohibit .455 caliber handguns. In Italy, they restricted instead all calibers used by the military.
In Canada, it's legal to shoot an old Russian anti-tank rifle (which would be a "destructive device" in the US) on your land, but a tiny revolver shooting .22 shorts? That's too dangerous!
And even then, if logic was completely abandoned and all Americans said "Hey, let's get rid of guns!", with strings of drool leaking from the corners of their mouths, maybe it'd be more logical to, you know, amend the constitution instead of just passing anti-constitutional laws over and over again only to have them repealed by the SCOTUS.
But they know they don't have the numbers required to amend it, and even if they did, they know, deep down, that attempting to do so would lead to a civil war.
They lost the fight before it started.
