SHOCKER: Stolen Guns End Up In Criminal Hands

By Tom Knighton

What the supposed idea behind gun control is that it will take guns out of the hands of bad people. If gun control activists are to be believed–and I don’t believe them–the perfect gun control scheme would make it physically impossible for any bad person to ever get a gun of any kind while law-abiding citizens could own pretty much whatever they wanted.

Now the one thing both sides can agree on is that such a scheme is completely impossible. It’s never going to happen.

One of the reasons why is that criminals are criminals. They break laws all the time. If they can’t buy a gun, they’ll just steal one. In fact, that’s what a lot of them do.

Hundreds of guns are being stolen across Virginia, and Lynchburg Police Officer John Pavia says it’s not getting better.

“There’s been a problem and the trends been going up and the larceny from auto theft has only been on the rise,” said Pavia.

We investigated and just so far this year:

• 85 guns were stolen in Roanoke
• 24 in Lynchburg
• 37 in Danville

Jones says they’re seeing stolen guns used in crimes, and some of the guns are from as far as 100 miles away.

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Source:: Bearing Arms