03-14-2018, 01:48 PM
(03-13-2018, 01:50 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Actually, they usually buy them from someone who stole them directly or acquired the firearm from someone who stole it.
Actually no, they don't. There is a large business in trafficking guns to criminals that start with "straw purchases"
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/inside-straw-purchasing-criminals-get-guns-illegally/
Looking at trace information from 1998, the ATF found that “a small group of dealers accounts for a disproportionately large number of crime gun traces.”4 More than 85 percent of dealers in the U.S. had no crime guns traced to them at all in 1998, while about 1 percent of licensed firearm dealers accounted for 57 percent of traces that same year.5 The ATF also concluded that “sales volume alone cannot be said to account for the disproportionately large number of traces associated with those dealers.”6
Guns get from dealers to criminals in part through trafficking. “ATF’s trafficking investigations show that trafficked firearms are diverted to prohibited persons and are subsequently used in serious crimes,” according to an ATF report.7 In trafficking investigations between 1996 and 1998, 25 percent involved guns used in an assault and 17 percent involved guns used in homicides.8 Nearly 5 million Americans were victims of violent crimes committed with firearms between 1993 and 2005.9
The ATF examined gun-trafficking investigations from July 1996 to December 1998 and found that 46 percent of trafficking investigations during this period involved straw purchasers.10 This was nearly double the percentage of the next closest source.
Anyone interested in the truth about gun trafficking should read this entire article.
It clearly shows which of us know what we are talking about when it comes to gun trafficking.
