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Gun Control & RKBA

petronius

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6. I'm guessing that the map is based on the 2014 ATF trace report, but it's

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 02:15 PM

Nov 2015

not limited to guns that were purchased or moved just in 2014. Many of the guns depicted will have been purchased a decade or more ago - I imagine that if they controlled for migration somehow, a lot of those smaller and back-and-forth arrows would disappear. Or if it was limited to guns that were purchased and recovered in the same year (or a one-year lag).

For example, people probably move back and forth across that TX-LA border all the time, and have family on both sides. Those arrows aren't trafficking I'll bet, they're household relocations...

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How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws [View all] Blue_Tires Nov 2015 OP

With minor adjustment, looks like established pot-smuggling routes... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #1

70-80% of the graphic would need to be changed for that.. Blue_Tires Nov 2015 #4

I'm guessing that the map is based on the 2014 ATF trace report, but it's petronius Nov 2015 #6

Yeah, probably so. This stuff looks dated in some ways... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #10

UBC combined with registration a possible deterrent. nt jmg257 Nov 2015 #2

Registration is a dead issue. N/T beevul Nov 2015 #16

300 million guns in America, yearning to be free to do what they can only do....kill and maim. Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #3

If the true intention of a firearm is to only kill and maim, why isn't the United States a vast Waldorf Nov 2015 #7

30,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries/year is a crisis of the Gun...only the NRA-lovers say otherwise. Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #8

Quite the opposite. beevul Nov 2015 #12

smugglers drive just across the state line into Indiana, buy a gun and drive back. gejohnston Nov 2015 #5

guns can be different sizes, j-man jimmy the one Nov 2015 #9

since most crime guns are pistols gejohnston Nov 2015 #11

Absolutely right, I just bought a Remington Nylon 66 in Hammond last week DonP Nov 2015 #14

Wrong again. Kang Colby Nov 2015 #13

where are these expert idiots jimmy the one Nov 2015 #15