Just because you purchase a firearm, doesn't mean you have a safe to store it in. However, a safe could be provided by paying a monthly fee until it's paid off. Of course, even having safe doesn't mean criminals can't break into it. Criminals have broken into National Guard Armories and stole weapons. A determined thief will most often get their way. Also, there's that fact that criminals don't care about any anti-gun laws. They aren't about to turn them in. Also, I am not in favor of taking firearms away from law-abiding people that aren't out committing crimes with them. When they purchased their firearms, the firearms were legal and as they haven't committed crimes with them, those firearms are none of your business.Legally bought guns add to the pool of guns available to obtain illegally. And the study doesn't seem to be focusing only on black crime, does it? There's not much information about details in the article.When they confiscate the firearms from the gangbangers, it is generally found that those firearms are mostly stolen, while some are what is called, "ghost guns" with no serial numbers. In this day and age, you can make a firearm in your garage, especially pistols and shotguns.You can read a lot of things into statistics, can't you?
Another reason for more murders nationwide could be the 40% increase in gun sales in 2020.
Causation? Correlation? My guess is as good as yours.
If you read the article, who the hell knows?Another reason for more murders nationwide could be the 40% increase in gun sales in 2020.
How many of those murders were committed using firearms purchased legally in 2020?
My point is that OP's conjecture on the cause of increased homicides is as much of a guess as mine.