That's easy......1) they steal them....2) they get friends and family to buy them at gun stores....the freinds and family can pass current federal background checks...which means they can pass universal background checks for any private sale.....the Prosecutors do not have any desire to prosecute the baby momma or the grandmother of a gang member who will tell the jury she bought the guns for the gang because they threatened to beat or kill her....
That is how they get the guns.
There is no background check required under federal law for private sales and only a few states require them.
That's the gun show loophole and why universal background checks has been on the table for a long time. 75% of gun owners agree.
States requiring background checks for private sales
Background check by FFL required
All firearms: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia New York Nevada Oregon Rhode Island Washington
Handguns: Maryland Pennsylvania
Since handguns are the weapon of choice for criminals, it's not difficult to see how the lax requirements on the private sales has allowed for widespread proliferation.
Yes....we know....you guys lie about guns shows...we got it. Private sales require no background check no matter where they happen....you can sell your own gun in the parking lot of a gun show......
The criminals do not go through background checks......they get a straw buyer to buy the gun for them....so......if there were universal background checks, their straw buyer would pass that background check too...
What is it about that dynamic that you people fail to grasp?
And as for mass shooters....almost all of them pass current, federally mandated background checks....so......that means they would also pass any background check for a private sale.....
What part of that dynamic do you not understand?
75% of gun owners have no idea about what a universal background check is, and how stupid they are.........if you explain what I just explained, they wouldn't support them....why?
Because I would also say that the only reason numb nuts like you want universal background checks is because after a few years...when criminals keep getting guns with universal checks, and mass shooters keep getting guns with universal checks....
You morons will come back and demand universal gun registration....saying that of course you can't stop criminals and mass shooters with universal background checks...we need universal gun registration....
And that is the key....you need to register the guns before you can get the political muscle to ban the guns...that is how it was done in nazi Germany, in Britain, Australia, Canada, New York, and California....all of those places said that registering guns would make people safer....and it hasn't.......