Whatever the law abiding buy, that's the type of gun criminals end up with, because that's where the criminals get their guns.
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Please state your source.
There are many sources that point to this.
Surveys amongst prisoners, FBI crime reports, even John Lott. (Lott claims around 50% of all guns in criminals hands were stolen, iirc)
The Dept of Justice surveys in federal and state prisons in 1997 found that 14% of criminals bought their gun from a dealer, gun show etc, 40% got one from family or friends, 30% bought their gun from a criminal contact, 10% stole the gun they later used in crime themselves.
The FBI reported an average of 180,000 handguns stolen per year in the late 80s and early 90s. I believe the figure has gone down a bit since then, but the FBI still reports over 1 million unrecovered stolen firearms in the last decade, the majority handguns, iirc.
Where do you think these guns go? Think the criminals are throwing these away, and making themselves zip guns instead?
Nearly every gun used in crime in the US was legally manufactured or imported into the US, before getting into the hands of criminals, either before or after being sold to a legitimate buyer.
The guns aren't coming in from abroad, and they aren't being made in illicit factories.
As to ammo, criminals again either steal it, or usually just buy it.
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Once again... you certainly seem to have a lot of "facts" at your disposal.
You think they are making their own ammo? Why? Why not do what criminals usually do, steal, or use the proceeds from crime to buy.
What's the point of going to extreme lengths to aquire ammunition when it's so easily available?
Think about this man... THEY FILE THE SERIAL #'s OFF.
Actually, they normally don't, which should tell you just how organised most criminals are.
But I was refering more to new technology than a sime stamped or engraved serial number, like the suggestion the gun could automatically stamp the cartridge case every time it fires. (Note I am not arguing about the technology, I have no idea if it works or not, I was just disputing the fact that some seem to believe criminals guns are somehow not related in any way to legal guns, as if they come from a entirely seperate supply chain)
Many of those people either cant find work or....they dont want to find work because they make more money via illegal activities.
Take a look at the average IQ of prisoners. These are not intellignet people, by and large. They don't usually have a good work ethic, either, otherwise they wouldn't have taken to crime.
Ever hear of a zip gun? Zip guns were made by gangs by using car radio antennaes and firing .22 bullets through them. They were very dangerous to the user, but that didnt stop them from being used.
Which sort of highlights the point. Zip guns were crap, dangerous. You'd have to be pretty stupid to use one. The point I was replying to was:
Of course this method will be perfectly well used to catch those WHO BUY ILLEGAL GUNS AND AMMUNITION. Because obviously, all the criminals will put the serial number on their guns and their bullets.
That implied criminals were making their own guns. They don't, of course, and when they did they used to make rubbish like zip guns.
You want to Stop gun crime?
Start with making laws that punish the people who use them in a crime. Make it life to use a gun in a crime.
Great idea. It's given me a foolproof plan for stopping murders.
We'll make murder illegal, and give long prison sentences to anyone who carries one out. We could even execute some of them.
That will stop them, no doubt. No-one is going to commit murder if they know they'll go to prison, or even be executed, for it.
We can get rid of all other crime as well. We'll make it illegal to commit crime, then the criminals will stop.
You can rely on it if you like, but I'll still continue to lock my car, and my front door at night.
I'd rather not rely on the criminal to choose a better way, I'd rather try to physically stop him committing crimes.
