Posted on 08/20/2018 11:11:29 AM PDT by rktman
Thousands of guns recovered in Maryland last year traced back to 49 states, but the largest portion of firearms was bought locally…
ATF agents were able to determine where nearly 5,900 of the firearms were sold, according to a new analysis by the ATF, which publishes the findings of its gun traces each year.
Some 47 percent were bought in Maryland, the ATF found. Virginia ranked second and supplied about 15 percent of the guns. Pennsylvania came third with nearly 7 percent.
Some firearms were bought as far away as Texas (101 guns) and California (46 guns).
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say....other criminals?
And I would be willing to wager that nearly 100% were either stolen or straw purchased.
And how many of these guns confiscated from criminals were purchased legally from gun shops by said criminals?
Oooh, oooh, Mr. Kotter, pick me. I know, I know Mr. Kotter.
Zero
It is a well known fact that the best way to reduce the gun sales by criminal gangs who sell from their car trunks in the hood at night is to increase the paperwork burden on folks that buy guns legally from places like Cabela’s and gun shows. < / sarcasm >
The cupcakes in charge can either enforce the law, even when it comes to the ghetto babies, or just ignore the problem altogether (which is what liberals do in the first place).
Guns are irrelevant. Criminals are the problem.
"Thus endeth the lesson."
Ping!
Since ATF is supposed to monitor sales, it sounds like they are NOT doing their job.
In reality, they just collect taxes.
They started tracking guns used in shootings in Oakland, CA and were shocked to learn that over 1/2 came from one gun store. Turned out the “baby mamas” were straw purchasing for the gang bangers. Not one was ever arrested or prosecuted and the study was dropped and buried.
I figure they might be getting them from Chicago. The Chicago hoods don’t like them because they rarely hit their target. /s
So they were able to determine that America has guns and should feel bad that Baltimore gets them from us?
Seems like a stupid thought.
Are they citizens?
Don’t they have a right?
Did they trace the origins of the criminals? Where did they come from?
“Oooh, oooh, Mr. Kotter, pick me. I know, I know Mr. Kotter.”
Chortle, snort...
Well then, let's increase restrictions for lawful purchases, that ought to solve the problem.
But wait a minute, I thought they were most all picked up at Gun shows using a loop hole, followed closely by Internet sales without background checks?
Please don’t tell me we been lied to. My world would be shattered. /s
Where the guns in possession of criminals were purchased is of no importance.
What the criminals were doing with the guns in their possession is of utmost importance.
Gun control legislation dating all the way back to the original National Firearms Act of 1934 have done little to stop or deter the use of firearms in the commission of crime.
This is very simply the nature of crime and criminals. Criminals do not respect laws and ignore laws when pursuing the objective of their crime.
If a firearm will facilitate their objective in crime they will obtain a firearm and use it in the commission of said crime. If it is necessary, that they commit a crime to gain the possession of a firearm that fact is not a deterrent to achieving that end.
Laws limit the actions of the lawful not the lawless. This is not a difficult concept. It is a natural and obvious fact of human nature.
The old joke that it is illegal only if you get caught is funny because it is true.
The enforcement of all laws is after the fact of the crime. To the criminal mind during the commission of the crime is the realization that chances are they will not get caught.
For most criminals this is a fact that they have learned during their lives. Most crimes go unpunished. Many crimes that are discovered and the perps caught are lightly punished.
The deterrence of crime is dependent of punishment. If punishment of crime is rare law becomes irrelevant. Delayed punishment become irrelevant because in the mind of the criminal the punishment become detached from the crime. Both of these effects are at work in today’s society.
Gun control laws are ineffective and have always been ineffective because of the nature of criminals not because of nature of guns. But what little effect they could have is rendered ineffective because of the lackadaisical nature of our courts when it comes to enforcement of the law.
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