Maybe the punishment for illegal gun possession is too lenient.How about 20 years for illegal possession or sale of a firearm?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 587031Good idea!
Deterrence may help, most guns are initially sold legally, with a paper trail. Maybe a 50 percent deposit on top of the sale price of a gun, to encourage proper storage,
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 587031Making it harder for law-abiding citizens to be armed is going at the problem backwards.
It's criminals that use guns to commit violence.
or encourage surrendering of guns instead of selling them on the black market.There must be some way to reduce illegal guns....
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 587031 Many gun buyback programs take junk guns off the street.
Good idea!
I recall (my age shows here) BATF used to have a display at their HQ which included thompsons which had been torched into pieces and dumped into the ocean off NJ.
Then recovered by criminals who welded them back together and machined them into working again.
They also had a 9mm submachine gun made in a prison, from water pipe and scrap.
Zip guns are crude homemade guns often used in crime.
Paper-trail*
WWI & WWII & Ko9rean War surplus guns were dumped cheaply before the 1968 Gun Control Act began that paper trail.
Millions of guns, or more like tens of millions of undocumented guns are in America.
Burglaries, and kids selling daddy's gun for drugs put them on the illegal market often.
I got called into a local gun shop to identify a 'whatzit' being offerred for sale.
It was a German WWII vintage STG44 assault rifle. Full auto.
Gun shop owner sent them out. Call the cops? I asked him.
They know where my shop is. I don't want it torched.
That gun is out there, for sale to anybody with cash.
