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Quote by: leegao 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. |
So? That's what exists now, right? If the legitimate arms market diminishes, then all you have left are illegally smuggled weapons.
And are you saying that all imported weapons are used in crimes or the military? Other data seems to show differently...
U.S. Department of Justice "Traced guns come from many countries across the
globe. However, 78% of the guns that were traced
in 1994 originated in the United States and most
of the rest were from--
Brazil (5%)
Germany (3%)
China (3%)
Austria (3%)
Italy (2%)
Spain (2%)."
Only 9% of guns possessed by federal criminals were smuggled.
