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How are the guns originally obtained? A factory makes them, they get sold somewhere. Ghost guns are a thing, but that also has a legislative solution.
by greesil 5y ago
How are the guns originally obtained? A factory makes them, they get sold somewhere. Ghost guns are a thing, but that also has a legislative solution.
- iratewizard 5y agoIt depends on where you are. How does heroin come into the country? How do illegal immigrants? How does weed end up in Georgia? Incompetent / malevolent government (see ATF gun shop "stings"). Illegal crossing at an unmaintained border. Varying states rights that allow systematic arming of gangs. And theft.
- greesil 5y agoAh yes all government policies are inherently doomed to failure and can't have any significant impact. I had forgotten, thank you for reminding me.
- iratewizard 5y agoAh yes, reality is inconvenient when you are trying to solve an issue from your armchair with the mental hardware of a midwit.
- greesil 5y agoAll issues are unsolvable if we don't bother to try.
- iratewizard 5y agoAnd other inspirational quotes for NPCs
- greesil 5y agoRoll a d20 for a saving throw against apathy.
- cryptonector 5y agoGuns get stolen. In a country with 300 million guns and a very porous border with lots of criminal activity along that border, there are going to be many, many illegal guns. There are a lot of controls on new firearms transactions now, but there weren't always, and even now, some States allow private transfers w/o a background check (I believe Florida does, where it suffices that the seller not have reason to believe that the buyer is disqualified from owning a firearm, but IANAL and also am not a Floridian). It's entirely possible that just based on stolen guns, and transfers made back before background check were required, that there might be several million firearms in the hands of persons not permitted to own them. Even if it was just one million, that would be thousands in certain cities. Add to this that drug traffickers along the southern border have ways to sneak in enormous amounts of illegal drugs, and you have to imagine they would also bring some firearms too, no? so probably quite a few over the past 40 years. Here's a link I just found searching for this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/guns.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/g...
- greesil 5y agoYeah I read that one too. That information reflects the current state of affairs, with our current laws and level of enforcement. Imagine a better world. You can look at what other countries do and are successful with as role models.
- cryptonector 5y agoIt looks like that's an 8 year old article.