Re: Re: Re:
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ARELOR on Sun Jun 26 2022 01:15 pm
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> 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.
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> AR> Afaik homemade guns are explicitly legal in a number of US States.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> ... 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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