AND a minimum 26 inch barrel is cumbersome in home defense. With Home invasions happening where a GANG hits your home or business, you need speed, accuracy and CAPACITY. Speed being the ability shoot rapidly without built in delays. The ANSWER to that is a semi-automatic weapon. Some will also argue with the proliferation of criminals using body armor, you need penetration, which rules out 99% of handguns. Gun ownership puts a lot of "uncertainty" in the minds of criminals and tyrants.

I foresee a few different actions. Obama declares the gun and ammo industries "essential" to national defense, and nationalizes them. Politicians see the ban against the Government as a GOOD thing, because anti-gun, is anti-gun. The Government simply re-arms itself with confiscated and "Buy-back" weapons. and the Government simply outsources to the UN for a foreign made system.