A 2016 survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics under DOJ, of federal and state inmates found that the overwhelming majority of inmates who used a gun while committing their crimes didn't buy their weapon from a licensed dealer."Among prisoners who possessed a gun during their offense, 90% did not obtain it from a retail source," which includes flea markets and pawn shops, in addition to licensed gun dealers, Department of Justice statisticians noted in a 2019 analysis of that data. Roughly 7% obtained their guns directly from licensed dealers, the analysis noted."Of the approximate 7% that purchased their weapon through an FFL [federal firearms licensee], almost 100% of those sales were completed in compliance with the laws and regulations that govern the sale of a firearm, meaning at the time they purchased the firearm, they were most likely not prohibited from doing so[,]"
I suppose I'd rather they devoted their attention to this issue than others, however, since their renewed attention will produce no substantial changes.
UPDATE: Inconceivable!
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Blaming the innocent occurs when those in power don't want to admit who the guilty really are. Therefore, police officers have to be accused of targeting blacks - they aren't, and the data says it might even be a little bit of the opposite - and nice high school teachers who are trying to be decent people are accused of being racist.
So also here. They prefer to look for their keys under the streetlight rather than where they dropped them.
Rouge dealers sell ghost guns to straw buyers in the grey market under the gunshow loophole...
Everybody who reads the papers knows that.
It should be obvious that it's not the guns that are the problem. Almost all the guns were there six months, or a year, or two years ago- and we didn't have anywhere near the violent crime numbers we're having now. It wasn't access to guns that changed...
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