Rocori shooter's gun 528Oh, he sold *far* more than that. The reason that he didn't go to jail is that he alerted the Feds to suspicious purchases, and knowingly sold far more than 117...
Well, if you ask criminals, only .7% of them get their guns at gun shows.
Most buy them on the black market, or obtain them from other illegal sources.
-- It is ironic ... in light of all the impbuttioned scholarly dispute, that large defensive gun use estimates pose no threat whatsoever to the moderate gun controls, such as background checks of prospective gun buyers, that most Americans support. These measures would not deny guns to any significant number of noncriminals, and thus would not prevent defensive gun use among the law-abiding. People who sincerely support only moderate controls, but oppose gun prohibition, should have no political concerns about large defensive use estimates.
Such estimates do, on the other hand, consbreastute a very serious obstacle to promoting gun prohibition, which would deny guns to criminals and noncriminals alike, and thus would reduce whatever benefits defensive gun use may yield. Therefore, in light of the absence of any intellectually serious basis for discounting large defensive gun use estimates, one plausible explanation of why some scholars cling to the rare-defensive gun use theory in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence is that they favor a disarmed populace and accurately perceive high defensive gun use estimates as a significant political obstacle to achieving national gun prohibition.
- Gary Kleck, "Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control.
Rocori shooter's gun 529Largely, sure. The Feds -- and do remember that this is a federal crime -- are insbreastutionally reluctant to spend a lot of time and money on "street crime." That's...