Study Shows Just How Easily Criminals Can Get Gun Regardless Of Laws

By Tom Knighton

No matter how many times we tell people that gun laws don’t work, that criminals will continue to find guns, some people just don’t want to get the memo. They continue to prattle on about how this law will reduce crime, or how that law will cut down on murders. The reality is that none of that will happen.

We have told people how criminals get guns. CBS accidentally stumbled onto it too.

Criminals get their guns illegally, off the street. We’ve said it time and time again, but we’re typically ignored. I think part of it is that because the people we tell don’t know how to get an illegal gun, they figure it’s not that easy. I get it. Of course, they’re wrong.

Recently a study was conducted that showed just how easily the bad guys can get a gun, and it’s not difficult at all.

Researchers at Northwestern University used arrest records and firearm recovery data collected from the Chicago Police Department between 2006 and 2013 to construct a “network” of offenders and their proximity — via associates — to firearms. The approach, considered novel within the scientific community, attempts to quantify how easily guns …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms