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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 05:39 AM Apr 2016

Tracing firearms used in crimes is inexact science

SMYRNA, Ga. — Adventure Outdoors is an 80,000-square-foot store with walls lined with long guns, cases packed with handguns and aisles jammed with all the accessories an avid outdoorsman would need: coolers, clothing, ammo. At the customer service counter is a government-issued poster that warns: “Don’t lie for the other guy.”

Store founder Jay Wallace said his staff is diligent about making sure buyers are legitimate and not fronting for someone who is legally prohibited from buying a gun. But once a sale goes through, he said, it’s out of his hands.

“A firearm takes on a life of its own after it leaves. It can be bought and sold many times over,” Wallace said.

The flow of guns from one person to another, and from states with loose gun laws to those with strict ones, has long flummoxed law enforcement and gun-control advocates and is emerging again as a hot topic.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/28/tracing-firearms-used-in-crimes-is-inexact-science/
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Tracing firearms used in crimes is inexact science (Original Post) SecularMotion Apr 2016 OP
The title should be.... CompanyFirstSergeant Apr 2016 #1
This is why a searchable electronic national firearms registry in necessary. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #2
Because ... Straw Man Apr 2016 #3
According to the ATF most crime guns aren't stolen, they are straw purchases. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #4
Make a registry for straw purchasers then. N/T beevul Apr 2016 #5
Straw purchases ... Straw Man Apr 2016 #6
How about some funding and personnel for the ATF? nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #7
Sure -- why not? Straw Man Apr 2016 #9
Canada had one. theatre goon Apr 2016 #8

Straw Man

(6,760 posts)
3. Because ...
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 01:13 PM
Apr 2016
This is why a searchable electronic national firearms registry in necessary.

... when a gun is used in crime, it's important to know whom it was stolen from.

Straw Man

(6,760 posts)
6. Straw purchases ...
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 02:28 PM
Apr 2016
According to the ATF most crime guns aren't stolen, they are straw purchases.

...made by purchasers who will then claim the gun was stolen to avoid prosecution.

How about stings and long prison sentences for straw purchasers? There's a novel idea.
 

theatre goon

(87 posts)
8. Canada had one.
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 04:45 PM
Apr 2016

They shut it down because it cost a lot of money and didn't actually do any good.

So, why is it that we need one, then, when it just costs a lot of money and doesn't help anything...?

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