chapset said:
HappySqurriel said:
chapset said:
Lyrikalstylez said: check out how great it has been over here in chicago since guns have been bann'd, only 500+ murders a year :-| if anything this shows more people need to carry weapons |
gun laws don't work in Chicago because you can go to the next state or even city and buy your weapons legally to do your dirt, just like the mexican Cartels come to the US to buy their weapons.
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... and how many gun crimes are committed with legally purchased guns?
I haven't seen the statistics myself but I would expect that it would be (roughly) 0.
Edit: On the Mexican cartels, outside of guns provided by the federal government, the cartels do not buy their guns legally in the United States
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the guns are originally purchased by law abiding citizens who then sold them in the streets wich turn them into illegaly purchased weapons that the right wing like to use as an argument as to why banning guns doesn't solve anything.
Although the sale of handguns is illegal in Chicago, the city is ringed by a handful of gun shops, some just blocks from the city limits. Altogether, there are 441 federally licensed dealers in suburban Cook County and the five collar counties, according to the latest ATF data. Most of these suburban shops, officials say, are law-abiding businesses that operate responsibly. But a small percentage—fewer than 1 percent, the city says—are responsible for nearly half of all the firearms used in crimes in Chicago. Similarly, a small group of wholesalers are the principal suppliers of these so-called dirty dealers; 6 percent of wholesalers furnish 79 percent of all guns used in crimes in the city, according to information from the ATF's National Tracing Center.
One south suburban store, for example, is especially notorious. In a recent four-year period, according to analysis of ATF figures by the Washington, D.C.–based not-for-profit Americans for Gun Safety Foundation, Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale sold more guns linked to crimes than any other licensed gun dealer in the nation. Citing ATF records, the group reported last January that Chuck's sold 2,370 guns between 1996 and 2000 that were recovered by police and traced to crimes. (The shop's manager, John Riggio, says of the report, "You can do a lot of things with numbers. That's all I'm going to say.") Thirteen other gun dealers in the state—all but two were from Chicago's suburbs—were ranked by the Americans for Gun Safety Foundation among the top 120 dealers nationwide in supplying guns to criminals. Seven northwest Indiana gun shops also made the list.
The most common sources of guns used in crimes, the ATF reports, are "straw purchasers," individuals with valid firearm owner's identification cards who have passed criminal background checks and can buy guns legally, but do so on behalf of others. In most straw-purchase situations, Mike Smith says, a shill—typically a drug user, perhaps a family member or girlfriend with a clean criminal record—buys a gun and either gives it or resells it to someone else. Prohibited purchasers are mainly convicted felons, gang members, drug dealers, and juveniles.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2004/Biography-of-a-Gun/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1
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