Wahbooz
Governor
This is a good read, and reflects what I've continuall said was a problem in this country.
Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles
In the city of Los Angeles, 64 percent of homicides between 1999 and 2003 were committed with a handgun.[1] Although federal law prohibits ownership of firearms and ammunition by juveniles and certain people who may be prone to violence, unregulated secondary markets offer opportunities for these people to acquire them.
Many "crime guns" move quickly from legal sale into criminal use. Research has shown that one of every five guns that is used in a crime in Los Angeles moves very quickly from its initial, legal sale into criminal use.[2] This suggests that many legal gun purchases in the city might be what are called "straw purchases" — that is, a gun bought by an adult with a clean record expressly to give or sell it to someone who could not have otherwise gotten one.
Intervening in illegal gun markets could reduce criminals' access to guns. In 2001, an NIJ-funded project took a data-driven approach to understanding and disrupting these illegal gun markets in Los Angeles. The researchers hoped that intervening in these markets could help to reduce gun violence.
In their final report, the researchers argue that disrupting the illegal market in guns could have a real effect on gun violence. Contrary to commonly held belief, they say, high-crime areas are not awash in guns: Studies have shown that most robbers do not use guns[3] and most youths who are in gangs or who commit crimes do not own one.[4] By learning how guns move into the wrong hands, police and policymakers could make guns more difficult to access by those who will use them for harm.
Read more here:
http://www.nij.gov/nij/topics/crime/gun-violence/trafficking/illegal-markets.htm
Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles
In the city of Los Angeles, 64 percent of homicides between 1999 and 2003 were committed with a handgun.[1] Although federal law prohibits ownership of firearms and ammunition by juveniles and certain people who may be prone to violence, unregulated secondary markets offer opportunities for these people to acquire them.
Many "crime guns" move quickly from legal sale into criminal use. Research has shown that one of every five guns that is used in a crime in Los Angeles moves very quickly from its initial, legal sale into criminal use.[2] This suggests that many legal gun purchases in the city might be what are called "straw purchases" — that is, a gun bought by an adult with a clean record expressly to give or sell it to someone who could not have otherwise gotten one.
Intervening in illegal gun markets could reduce criminals' access to guns. In 2001, an NIJ-funded project took a data-driven approach to understanding and disrupting these illegal gun markets in Los Angeles. The researchers hoped that intervening in these markets could help to reduce gun violence.
In their final report, the researchers argue that disrupting the illegal market in guns could have a real effect on gun violence. Contrary to commonly held belief, they say, high-crime areas are not awash in guns: Studies have shown that most robbers do not use guns[3] and most youths who are in gangs or who commit crimes do not own one.[4] By learning how guns move into the wrong hands, police and policymakers could make guns more difficult to access by those who will use them for harm.
Read more here:
http://www.nij.gov/nij/topics/crime/gun-violence/trafficking/illegal-markets.htm
