https://pix11.com/2019/04/10/dozens-of-guns-seized-in-brooklyn-gun-trafficking-ring-bust/ gun runners buy lots of guns legally in South Carolina, then sell them to anyone with cash in Brooklyn. Glocks, rifles, even an Uzi. how is it that folks can buy all these guns and the ATF not be notified????????? this happens again and again. there are countless stories like this: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...ficking-arms-south-brooklyn-article-1.2752067 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/...accused-of-bringing-200-guns-to-new-york.html https://nypost.com/2015/05/06/meet-wobbles-the-500-pound-alleged-boss-of-a-gun-running-ring/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zn8vm8/viceland-black-market-gunrunners-clip https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/19/authorities-19-charged-in-largest-gun-bust-in-nycs-history/
Of all the firearms found in the possession of criminal individuals in the state of New York, the majority were originally sold in the state of New York than in any other state. This is a fact that is confirmed by the ATF itself. https://www.atf.gov/file/130211/download The state of New York has among the strictest of firearm-related restrictions anywhere in the united states. And yet despite that fact, despite all firearms being subject to registration and permitting requirements, fifteen percent of the total number of firearms submitted for tracing were originally sold in the state of New York to begin with. By comparison, only a mere four percent of the total number of firearms were originally sold within the state of South Carolina, where there are no such firearm-related restrictions in place. The firearm-related restrictions of the state of New York simply do not work. There is no way of disputing that fact when so many firearms in the possession of criminal individuals were sold in compliance with the restrictions of the state of New York to begin with. If said restrictions worked, the number of firearms illegally sold within the state would never be able to reach triple digit levels to begin with.
And the good part is once New Your is done, BATF will step in and charge them on the federal level as unlicensed gun dealers and if they thought the time NY is going to nail them with is rough, wait until the they find out the time the USA is going to offer them to take a plea bargain which they would be very wise to do as going to trial will only result in even more time in the lockup once convicted.
Complain to the sellers who are breaking federal law. Maybe a better question would be, why to people rob banks? or how does the ******* cut off turds when it has no teeth?
How bad does NYC really want to keep people "safe" ? If just the big cities had gun control (link to another thread, NYC does have other options)
So, what you are saying is that criminals don't abide by the law? Pssssst! That's why they are called criminals.
And if the laws already on the books where enforced and those violating them strongly prosecuted those criminals would be in prison where belong and as a result the number of gun injuries and deaths in the U.S. would be greatly lowered. We don't need more gun laws to solve the problem, what we need is for those who misuse guns to be removed from society and isolated into a prison. Adding more laws, to the ones we already have that are not being enforced, solves nothing. The anti's know that, but truth be told they are not trying to solve the problem, they are using the problem as a tool to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm the law abiding citizens of the U.S.
The only people not breaking the law are the gun sellers in the Carolinas. So the problem seems to be NYC criminals, must urban hell holes keep polluting the rest of the nation?
Today it's the areas 20 miles outside of NYC. NYC itself has been rapidly gentrifying and the problem component of the population can no longer afford to live there. Gentrification is solving the problem gun control never could.
Gentrification won't solve the problem, it will simply move the problem elsewhere. With in a few years the problem will actually be worse in that 20 mile area than it ever was in the city...