Posted April 23, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The so-called Dark Web can be an awful place. It really can. Literally, anything you can imagine is bought and sold on there, up to and including humans. While it’s not all awful–you can buy things as mundane as T-shirts and books as well–it’s important to recognize that there’s a lot to dislike about the dark web.

However, it seems some people are shocked to learn guns can be bought and sold over that same dark web.

It may not be a shock that the dark web, the online networks that aren’t readily accessible to the public, is a hotbed of illegal gun sales.

What is surprising is that almost all of the guns up for sale are available to buy legally in the U.S., according to research published last month in the journal Deviant Behavior. The study suggests that dark web customers may simply be trying to skirt local gun control regulations — and once experts understand how these guns move, they may be able to intercept and stop the trade altogether.

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Most gun sales — 64 percent of those tracked in the study — were for handguns. Only four percent were for military-grade, automatic weapons.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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