FBI: Only 0.35% of Gun Purchasers Using Licensed Dealers Were Criminals

Cybercast News Service ^ | April 17, 2013 | Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.

[Olog-hai]

The number of individuals who have attempted to purchase a firearm, who have also been convicted of a crime, represents just 0.35% of all background checks completed by the FBI.

According to data on the FBI’s website, since November of 1998, just 590,078 individuals who have been “convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year or a misdemeanor punishable by more than two years” have attempted to purchase firearms using the background check system. There have been 167,488,942 background checks completed over the same time period. …

Data from the FBI suggest that criminals overwhelmingly do not buy firearms through licensed dealers that are required to perform background checks for gun purchases. …

[ryan71]

I bought a Mossberg 702 this morning at a Walmart in Florida and got into a heated discussion with the “sportingoods guy”. He said ALL guns should be registered with the federal government. I gave him a little history lesson and he shut up.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Oh Oh. .035% will be touted at 35% by all-too willing lefties. watch.
.035% is a tiny bit over 1/3 (ONE THIRD) of 1 (ONE) percent.
Those old enough to have learned “historic” math will not be fooled. Modern “students”...it worries me.

[Venturer]

0.35% ,Gee that’s better than the interest I am earning on my life savings, and I can tell you it aint much.

That of course makes no difference to the Government run Mafia called the Congress.;

[TurboZamboni]

evil one third of one percenters!

[Standing Wolf]

The number of individuals who have attempted to purchase a firearm, who have also been convicted of a crime, represents just 0.35% of all background checks completed by the FBI.

Of that percentage, how many were arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned? I'd guess very close to none.

[Olog-hai]

Yes; it’s ³⁵⁄100% in vulgar fraction form.

[DJ MacWoW]

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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. Thomas Jefferson

[Monorprise]

So much freedom for soo little gain.

“Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.” - Benjamin Franklin

[Still Thinking]

Y’all missed a zero there.

[Wuli]

no gun laws have ever kept criminals from getting guns, when they want them - they’r not called CRIMINALS for nothin’

[mongo141]

Good for you! He might have shut up but I bet it went in one ear and out the other with out meeting any resistance on the way.

[jaunpaz]

They are called felons not stupid.