Subj : Re: Re:
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Jun 28 2022 04:09 pm

  Re: Re: Re:
  By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ARELOR on Sun Jun 26 2022 01:15 pm

 > -=> ARELOR wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
 > 
 >  AR> If they were scared of guns manufactured in underground workshops being
 >  AR> used for active shootings, it would be interesting to see how many
 >  AR> unregistered guns have been manufactured and used for one of those in
 >  AR> an underground workshop. I bet not many. Spain is an example of a
 >  AR> country with a tight supply of commercial weapon parts, which makes it
 >  AR> the sort of place in which baddies would turn to underground
 >  AR> manufacturing, and while there are underground blacksmiths, baddies
 >  AR> main sources of guns here are civil war stashes, corrupt law enforcers
 >  AR> an Eastern Europe Smugglers.
 > 
 >  AR> Afaik homemade guns are explicitly legal in a number of US States.
 > 
 > Yeah - the rhetoric is that 'ghost guns' are behing used in crimes and
 > it's impossible to trace them. BUT - I've seen NOTHING in that regard
 > in any reported data. I'm a legal gun owner. If I decide to manufacture
 > my own custom build, I'm in no more danger of using it for a crime than
 > any of the other guns I own.
 > 
 > By the same token, a 'crook' that likes to use a gun for armed robbery
 > or in a gang shooting? Why would they assemble parts at home that need
 > time, attention and elbow grease when they can just buy one on the black
 > market, or steal one?
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... As my grandfather had said in his last words, "A TRUCK!"

I agree.  Black market pistols are abundant. Sub $200 gunssell for $500 or more
in Detroit from the back of a car.

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