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leegao · Mar 23, 2008, 08:33 pm

Not necessarily. Research have shown that about 33 percent of annually produced firearms are imported, of those 33% roughly 2/3 are those commonly used in crimes and the rest are military grade fire-arm rarely seen in your regular crimes. Of course those produced here have seen a dramatic decline in both hand-guns and shotguns but an increase in military grade rifles and other automatic weaponry. While this does coincidentally fit in with the recent increase in automatic weapons in armed robbery but as we can see, the major firearm market post-ban would likely be from foreign import.

But you do have a point there, I guess after all the best way out is to restrict both the market and the supply (both local and foreign) which will act as the most effective deterent.

Mar 23, 2008, 08:33 pm	#121 (permalink) (top)
leegao Molten Ash Posts: 69	Not necessarily. Research have shown that about 33 percent of annually produced firearms are imported, of those 33% roughly 2/3 are those commonly used in crimes and the rest are military grade fire-arm rarely seen in your regular crimes. Of course those produced here have seen a dramatic decline in both hand-guns and shotguns but an increase in military grade rifles and other automatic weaponry. While this does coincidentally fit in with the recent increase in automatic weapons in armed robbery but as we can see, the major firearm market post-ban would likely be from foreign import. But you do have a point there, I guess after all the best way out is to restrict both the market and the supply (both local and foreign) which will act as the most effective deterent.