thorn726
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so i am forever searching for the elusive "$40 handgun" so easily availble to criminals on the street.
i was more or less interviewing some folks
first here's a scenario =
college kid hip hop gangsta wannnabe gets a .38 revolver. rich rich mommy comes to visit. kid puts gun in dumpster. gun ends up sold on street for $200, homeless felon who found it didnt want to get caught with it.
crazy , huh? apparently this is not a once in a lifetime find either, and go ahead, think i am making it up, whatever.
"ok so how fast could you get me a gun , really?"
"$250 9mm or .357, pretty fast , like right away"
"yeah, $200/250, man , as soon as you want it."
so what about the $40 gun? well maybe , but thats if you go to the worst ghettos, run the risk of getting shot buying it, and it WILL have crimes attached to it.
so at least around here, and these kids had been all over, this is really fairly common everywhere=
majority of guns on the street being used in crimes= stolen from gun stores, from IDIOTS who leave them in cars, from the garbage, or stolen form homes, etc.
i guess the moral is if we really want guns not to end up in crimes, people gotta keep them extra secure. in the area of gun safes, i see this as a good reason for guns to be in safes when not at home. im into the idea of strategic loaded arms everywhere when you are there, heh, you should se my buddy's house. loaded. everywhere.
obviuosly there is no preventing thefts from ever happening, but for example=
the fremont gun store robbery
im pretty sure if i really wanted one of those guns , i know how to get a hold of one. SEriously. im tempted to use a little hammer therapy to find out more about that actually, but putting people in prison could make my life unsafe
id have to be real careful about it.
THOSE MAROONS sorry to offend you, but i saw the news video, the front door was GLAss. come on, thats no way to secure a gun store.
some part of this falls on the gun owners to at least do everything they cna not to let theirs get stolen.
the idea that people who legally buy guns and then pass thme on t othe street- yeah , im sure it happens, but it is very very small portion of guns on the street. so far the closest thing to that is like the guy who found one in a dumpster and sold it, stuff like that.
now i have to imagine its much different far out in rural areas, but i bet its similar in cities all over. all of what ive found here is pretty much in line with what i had ever heard in NY also.
so the $40 gun is still a myth of the deep ghetto here, but the $250 one for the determined criminal- its out there, and it might be yours. keep them secure!
i was more or less interviewing some folks
first here's a scenario =
college kid hip hop gangsta wannnabe gets a .38 revolver. rich rich mommy comes to visit. kid puts gun in dumpster. gun ends up sold on street for $200, homeless felon who found it didnt want to get caught with it.
crazy , huh? apparently this is not a once in a lifetime find either, and go ahead, think i am making it up, whatever.
"ok so how fast could you get me a gun , really?"
"$250 9mm or .357, pretty fast , like right away"
"yeah, $200/250, man , as soon as you want it."
so what about the $40 gun? well maybe , but thats if you go to the worst ghettos, run the risk of getting shot buying it, and it WILL have crimes attached to it.
so at least around here, and these kids had been all over, this is really fairly common everywhere=
majority of guns on the street being used in crimes= stolen from gun stores, from IDIOTS who leave them in cars, from the garbage, or stolen form homes, etc.
i guess the moral is if we really want guns not to end up in crimes, people gotta keep them extra secure. in the area of gun safes, i see this as a good reason for guns to be in safes when not at home. im into the idea of strategic loaded arms everywhere when you are there, heh, you should se my buddy's house. loaded. everywhere.
obviuosly there is no preventing thefts from ever happening, but for example=
the fremont gun store robbery
im pretty sure if i really wanted one of those guns , i know how to get a hold of one. SEriously. im tempted to use a little hammer therapy to find out more about that actually, but putting people in prison could make my life unsafe
id have to be real careful about it.
THOSE MAROONS sorry to offend you, but i saw the news video, the front door was GLAss. come on, thats no way to secure a gun store.
some part of this falls on the gun owners to at least do everything they cna not to let theirs get stolen.
the idea that people who legally buy guns and then pass thme on t othe street- yeah , im sure it happens, but it is very very small portion of guns on the street. so far the closest thing to that is like the guy who found one in a dumpster and sold it, stuff like that.
now i have to imagine its much different far out in rural areas, but i bet its similar in cities all over. all of what ive found here is pretty much in line with what i had ever heard in NY also.
so the $40 gun is still a myth of the deep ghetto here, but the $250 one for the determined criminal- its out there, and it might be yours. keep them secure!