“Gun Free Zones” Major Source of “Crime Guns”

By Robert Farago

Reading Where criminals get their guns at abqjournal.com doesn’t yield much in the way of new information. In the main, criminals get their guns from theft and straw purchases (someone with a clean record buys a gun on their behalf). Not gun shows. Not internet sales. The majority of the guns used in crimes are stolen. And here’s the thing: an increasing number of firearms are being stolen from cars . . .

For years, police considered residential burglaries as the main route for criminals to get their hands on firearms.

That appears to be changing.

According to some preliminary statistics, APD reported 423 auto burglaries in which firearms were stolen in a recent 12-month period. In a nine-month period last year, there were 256 residential burglaries in which firearms were stolen.

Police also say, however, that more guns might be taken from a single residential burglary than an auto burglary.

But auto burglaries in Albuquerque have jumped from about 6,000 a year in 2013 to more than 8,000 last year.

The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that the Land of Enchantment issued 343k concealed carry permits in 2013, nearly 60k more than 2012. So . . . more guns in …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns