Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (336608)	5/6/2007 1:34:30 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1577883

A major source of guns to criminals is unscrupulous dealers (and I mostly mean the dealers who have a license but no store) who make fake sales to people who then say the gun was stolen but it was really sold, unrecorded, to someone who would never pass a background check. That's completely false and wishful thinking - the FBI crime stats show they are stolen or loaned by family/friends or bought illegally 80% of the time. I might add gun shows are the source less than 2% or the time - but like most liberal agendas and media driven circuses they focus on the least important factor or source. ojp.usdoj.gov Offenders According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from - a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2% a retail store or pawnshop for about 12% family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source for 80% During the offense that brought them to prison, 15% of State inmates and 13% of Federal inmates carried a handgun, and about 2%, a military-style semiautomatic gun. On average, State inmates possessing a firearm received sentences of 18 years, while those without a weapon had an average sentence of 12 years. Among prisoners carrying a firearm during their crime, 40% of State inmates and 56% of Federal inmates received a sentence enhancement because of the firearm. Most gun owners are pretty protective about their weapons and so these are not stolen by burglers looking for TVs. Unlike bulky TV's several guns fit easily in a bag and can be sold/traded quickly to drug dealers the usual thief is stealing to pay in the first place. This would similar to getting an inspection sticker for your car. As long as they don't need to see them in person.