lol good look you see it legal to carry a canceled weapon with a permit in pretty well every state and your allowed to take your guns outside to hunt with and also to use recreationally such as target shooting etc, What would help is the stop and frisk laws that reduced crime in nyc so much being instated all over America that way people who carry guns illegally can be found and arrested but liberals did away with that laws so the criminal would be protected .
What would also help would be get rid of the cashless bond you morons have passed that allowed 10 men in nyc to be picked up over 500 tines in 2 years and let loose again with no bond .
Sentence mandortory for gun crimes instead of liberal judges slapping them on the hand and giving them a pass .
And we have other issues such as the Antifa member whi tried to shoot a state policeman in Georgia and the cop defended himself and antifa attacked the cops demanding justice when justice had already been served when he defended himself seems the liberal antifa clowns feel they can shoot polic3e but they cant shoot back that kind of total mental ignorance ont he left is a big issue . And finally we have a right under the construction to defend our selves.
Next most guns that are used inn crimes are stolen yes 65 percent
wners. (Courtesy: C-SPAN)
By
Dan Clark March 12, 2018
Is most gun crime committed by those who illegally possess guns?
U.S. Rep. John Faso says he opposes some gun-control measures because they target the wrong people.
Laws that limit the rights of law-abiding gun owners don’t make sense because most gun crime is committed by those who illegally possess a gun, said Faso, a Republican.
"The vast majority of crime that is gun related is committed by people who illegally are possessing that firearm," Faso said in an interview on
C-SPAN.
Faso - who represents parts of the Hudson Valley and Capital Region -
supports strengthening background checks for gun buyers, banning bump stocks
and raising the age to purchase a firearm to 21. He does not support other measures, like a ban on assault-style firearms.
Is Faso right that the majority of gun crime is committed by those who illegally possess a gun?
National data
The last time the government tracked this kind of data was in 2004 when the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed inmates in federal and state prisons. Part of the survey asked inmates who had a gun during their crime where they originally got it.
Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, was part of a
team that used the data to estimate how many illegally possessed guns.
In the 13 states with the fewest restrictions on gun ownership, 40 percent of inmates illegally obtained the gun they used, Webster said. Only about 13 percent purchased the gun from a store or pawn shop.
In the other 37 states, including New York state, 60 percent of inmates illegally procured the gun they used, Webster said.
"If you look at the most stringent standards for legal gun ownership, it’s more like 65 percent," Webster said.
Those of us who uy our guns legally and go through the process are generally law abiding ,
Again making the law hit harder on those who steal,guns and sells then accessory to the fact would help but liberal judges and proscutirs rarely do that .