Something stinks about this story. Who were the dealers who sold the guns to the shooters? You can’t just walk into a gun shop and buy a gun without being run through the federal system.
In some places police have not destroyed all of the guns turned in to be destroyed. In some cases the guns wind up being “throw downs.” In others they just become the property of the officers who liberate them.
One thing is for sure. This will be used by gun grabbers as fodder to feed the anti-Second Amendment efforts to disarm the American people. This article refers to private sales. Obviously an effort will continue to regulate or prohibit private sales.
Don’t forget the so called “gun show loophole.” They have been trying to curtail private sales at gun shows for years. With all of the information that can’t be divulged by law enforcement about these cases there is plenty of room to be suspicious of this entire story.
Don’t forget that bogus story last year about 90% of the illegal firearms entering Mexico coming from the U.S. That story was a bald faced lie. I remember Juan Williams, one of the resident lefties on Fox News making that claim. Even after the lie was exposed Williams did not correct his false remarks.
I hope no one interprets my remarks as indicating any hostility toward police. I sure wouldn’t want to live anywhere without their presence. But there is no way to avoid having a few people in any large group of people who should not be there. There are also some police officers who are anti-gun when it comes to civilians. It makes no difference to them that in at least one large eastern city average response time to a 911 call was two hours.
The Memphis PD sold them to dealers, who sold them to private individuals. Those private individuals then sold them to people who were on the NICS list. They know the provenance of the weapons because of their serial numbers.
There's no conspiracy here. But, the fact of the matter is a guy who was deemed legally unfit to own a firearm due to mental defect , obtained a firearm anyways through a private sale, circumventing the NICS. There's no other way to color it. That's what happened.