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So let's deal with all those weapons getting into the black marketLiberty Nation News - Free Thinking. Free Speech.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted a survey in 2019 of inmates convicted of gun crimes. It found that 43% of criminals purchased their firearms on the black market, 6% stole them, and 10% bought weapons at a retail establishment. The criminal had another person buy the firearm for them in 11% of cases – a process known as the straw purchase – and about 15% received their weapons from a friend or relative. …emphasis added
“Guns enter illegal commerce through one of three ways,” enumerated an official from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) during an interview with Fox News. The first method is private purchases of guns that are later sold to individuals who are not legally allowed to possess them. The second tactic involves straw purchases, in which people purchase firearms legally from dealers and then give them to a person who is prohibited from owning them. Lastly, criminals will steal them from gun dealers and private citizens. In these cases, it is difficult to ascertain who committed the gun crime because the criminal does not register the newly acquired weapon.
While those are the three primary ways criminals obtain guns, there are indications the dark web is continuing to rise in popularity among those looking to acquire a firearm illegally. A 2018 RAND report showed that the internet is “increasing the availability of better performing, more recent firearms for the same, or lower, price than what would be available on the street or the black market.”
Randy Pargman, senior director of threat hunting and counterintelligence at Binary Defense, told Fox News that he expects “illegal online gun sales on the dark web to continue in the coming years,” noting that “if changes to laws make it more difficult to purchase guns legally, gun sales on the dark web may expand in the U.S.”
Oh and note that a significant number mass murderers bought their weapon of choice the DAY they killed...or within a few days...many with previous records that SHOULD have prevented them for doing so