theotherwaldo
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The smarter ones tend to go into less violent crimes where the punishment for failure is less severe and the rewards for success are higher.
-Unless they go into politics... .
-Unless they go into politics... .
I process approximately 800 to 1000 guns a year. I don’t get any of the revolvers or shotguns. My department has about 650 officers and we pickup about 2000 guns a year off the streets.Gunny, another thing I've gathered from this thread is the sheer volume of firearms that you've been asked to process. That's a lot of handguns to come into police possession in a relatively short period of time (assuming your agency isn't huge).
Not very often do we get guns with the wrong type of ammo. There are 32 cal revolvers that are sometimes picked up that are loaded with 32 Auto.We can only be thankful that the ammunition used is usually wrong for the gun or the very cheapest fmj available. Or at least, that's what I'm hoping...
Whatever they can get...
I think the quality would depend on the "class" of criminal
Everyday street thug, literally whatever they can get or steal
Higher class likely higher quality guns
This thread is a very good reason for having a gun safe.
Guns do get stolen, and the only market for stolen guns are criminals----more often gangs.
So any of the guns you own, if they were stolen, would most likely end up in the hands of criminals.
A petty thief doesn't want to be caught with a hot gun so they get sold to the only people fool enough to buy a stolen gun---criminals
I should have added criminals who'll use guns.Any gun that is stolen is by definition, already in the hands of (a) criminal(s).
But, yea, the thread does inherently argue for securing your guns!
This thread is a very good reason for having a gun safe.
Guns do get stolen, and the only market for stolen guns are criminals----more often gangs.
So any of the guns you own, if they were stolen, would most likely end up in the hands of criminals.
A petty thief doesn't want to be caught with a hot gun so they get sold to the only people fool enough to buy a stolen gun---criminals
Depends on the criminal.It's credulous to think that people are identified by categories like "petty thief," as if they have a business card, "Joseph Peters, Petty Theif." People commit petit theft because they're sinners, and that's the same reason they commit insurance fraud or cheat on their wives. It's also the reason a person would receive stolen merchandise. They don't have to buy a stolen gun if someone gives it to them, and there are plenty of people that have received stolen items as gifts who willingly took them. Others won't ask any questions because they don't want to know. Does it make any difference if it's a gun, or auto parts, a watch or building materials, or clothes, electronics, movies, software, porn?
There once was a man that broke into the garden shed on the property of a man he worked for. He found a .22, like a kit gun in a tackle box among fishing items and took it with a few other things. A few days later he walked into someone's house uninvited. An old woman came out of her bedroom and he shot her in the face with that .22. She retreated into her bedroom where he shot her several more times. On another day, he shot another person, and then another. He walked into the house of the man whose .22 it was, and he shot the man's wife. The old man was sitting on his bed getting dressed and he shot him too. This petty thief took a few trinkets, an Apple watch, some silver rings. He gave some items to his mom. He kept some. He pawned others at a pawn shop that did buy them. That was back in January. So why didn't he sell the gun to the only people fool enough to buy a stolen gun -- criminals?
This is correct.The way to take guns out of the hands of criminals is to actually punish criminals for misusing guns.
Don't bargain those counts away.
Don't go for the bigger, more dramatic count.
Punish improper use of a firearm. Especially repeat offenders.
Until the old, vicious, 18th century concept of Racism is extinguished, absurdities like this will continue to surface.To many complained that to many blacks were having to spend more time behind bars so, now days it is not enforced.
This is correct.
Project Exile was kicked off in 1997. It added five years that could not run consecutive. To many complained that to many blacks were having to spend more time behind bars so, now days it is not enforced.
You would be surprised at how many guns we take off of Felons. And most of the guns we pick up have drug related charges.
As long as the punishment for crime is less then the reward, crime will not go down.
You would be surprised at how many guns we take off of Felons. And most of the guns we pick up have drug related charges.
As long as the punishment for crime is less then the reward, crime will not go down.
Something we see all the time is, when a repeat felon is finally put away for a long time, some say why was he still out on the streets with all the crimes he had already committed.In how many of these cases are the firearms charges actually kept? Do they get plead away or dropped to focus on the drug charges?
-And when prison is no longer a source of fear then it is no longer a punishment. It becomes "three hots and a cot, guaranteed first quality by the US Government."These guys get locked up and then let out, and they go back to doing the same thing because the money is so good.