Apples and Oranges

OK, you want to pretend that a firearm is "just an inanimate object" when it's not--it's a fucking weapon. They are intended to be used as weapons to injure or kill.

I've got better "inanimate objects" for you to understand how stupid that argument is: Nuclear Weapons or Nerve Gas.

After all, they are perfectly safe if you follow the safety rules. In fact, it is so safe that one site I worked at worked with nerve gas in an urban area! Betcha didn't know that the US Army plays with the stuff at Fort Detrick and the Aberdeen Proving Ground right in the NorthEast Megapolis!

Come on, don't you want your neighbour to have some VX or Sarin in his garage?

How about a Thermonuclear weapon--and I'm not tallking the piddly things they dropped on Japan, but a big job in the megaton range?

After all. they are just inanimate objects--what's to worry?

It's just an inanimate object.

Now hear this!

A firearm is a weapon that launches one, or many, projectile(s) at high velocity through confined burning of a propellant.

A blank pistol, which is incapable of firing a projectile does not meet the definition of a firearm by anyone's standard.

In addition, these are not made to the same standard as firearms and often function quite differently than firearms in regard to safety features.

They are not firearms.

They are glorified cap guns.

Is that in simple enough language for you to understand????????