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jimmy the one

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13. law abiding gun owners, sometimes not
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 01:26 PM
Mar 2016
Out of the roughly 300 million guns in the US How many are legal? How many are illegal?

75/25 is the closest to the truth, imo. I think more like 88/12 or so, 8 incrementals woulda been better, imo.

I'm also including an 'illegal' gun as one which was purchased legally but which is owned by someone who shouldn't be owning it, due improper licensing, black market purchase, stolen, illegal in his state due recent bans or other gun control laws (sometimes due a move to another state), etc.
As well as handling a legal gun by a legal owner in an illegal manner, often clandestinely, on a regular basis.
Plus smuggled in from other countries, including substandard sh*t.

How then should firearms in states with Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws be looked at? those homes with young children where the CAP law mandates firearms be stored either in gun safes, trigger locked, ammo separate, how should these guns be listed? illegal or not? those being 'illegally' or illicitly kept about the house where kids could stumble across them & shoot willy nilly (some atrocious proportion of homes in some progun states where ~30% of guns violate the CAP law).
Law abiding gun owners, are sometimes, not so abiding.

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