Carl N. Brown
Member
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Firearms Use by Offenders, periodically surveys 2000+ samples of state and federal prison inmates who carried or used a gun in their last offense and asks them where they got their guns. Criminals have already been asked and have told where they get guns.
12% from retail sources (mostly FFL gun shops and pawnshops, 0.8% from gun shows)
88% from gray or black market sources (family or friends willing to sale, trade, rent a gun to a criminal; thieves; burglars; drug dealers; fences; black marketeers; street dealers in contraband).
I have posted the BJS FUO summaries for 1991, 1997, 2004. Not much has changed since the original "Armed and Considered Dangerous" survey in the 1980s by Wright and Rossi. The percentage of criminals acquiring guns from legal sources has been whittled from about 20% to 12% but at what cost and at what expense to programs that might have done more to impact crime and public safety?
It is almost funny that some of the internet "sellers" took the "prohibited person" buyers' money and then disappeared into the mists of the web without delivering any goods. Except this study cost the taxpayers $4 million.
(Tin foil hat time. If the long term plot was to cripple the local gunshop by allowing internet sales, then shut down internet sales by declaring them the moral panick equivalant of demon rum or reefer madness or horror comics seducing the innocent, I think they jumped the gun. Or the shark.)
12% from retail sources (mostly FFL gun shops and pawnshops, 0.8% from gun shows)
88% from gray or black market sources (family or friends willing to sale, trade, rent a gun to a criminal; thieves; burglars; drug dealers; fences; black marketeers; street dealers in contraband).
I have posted the BJS FUO summaries for 1991, 1997, 2004. Not much has changed since the original "Armed and Considered Dangerous" survey in the 1980s by Wright and Rossi. The percentage of criminals acquiring guns from legal sources has been whittled from about 20% to 12% but at what cost and at what expense to programs that might have done more to impact crime and public safety?
It is almost funny that some of the internet "sellers" took the "prohibited person" buyers' money and then disappeared into the mists of the web without delivering any goods. Except this study cost the taxpayers $4 million.
(Tin foil hat time. If the long term plot was to cripple the local gunshop by allowing internet sales, then shut down internet sales by declaring them the moral panick equivalant of demon rum or reefer madness or horror comics seducing the innocent, I think they jumped the gun. Or the shark.)
