Rats, a dying breed...
Hey now, that's an insult to rats. Rats have been proven to exhibit empathy. Politicians? Not so much.
Meanwhile...
>Call in about suspicion of an illegal firearm, get a police response to search the home and throw the offender in jail
>Call in about an illegal immigrant and they could care less.
Makes perfect sense.
Another concern is how is the general public, who clearly doesn't know a muzzle from their ***hole, going to tell if a firearm is illegal? We have idiots out there who think semi autos blow up trains, and any black rifle is fully automatic and evil.
It's kind of like someone standing on the street corner and saying "I think that car is illegal. Only way to know for sure is to fully inspect it and run the VIN. Even though it looks like that legal car next to it, I'm pretty sure it's illegal."