On Thu, 9 May 2013 01:25:47 +0000 (UTC), Gray Guest
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>deep wrote in
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>> You said gun violence has been going down since 93. That's when the
>> Brady Bill was passed. You figure it out.
>
>What I can figure out is that prosecutions for Brady violations have been a
>tiny percentage of actual DQs so how does that work?
How that works varies by state. In Virginia, for example, there were
2,999 denials in 2010. They investigated 942 and made 842 arrests. In
the course of those investigations they also apprehended 65 wanted
persons.
The number of federal cases that are dropped for "no prosecutive
merit" is huge. Most never make it to prosecutors' offices. When they
do, they have to fall within limited guidelines or they aren't
prosecuted. Remember, all of those cases would have to go through U.S.
District Courts. There are only 94 of them in the entire United
States. They limit prosecutions to those they feel are really
dangerous.
There are not many states that make an all-out effort, and federal
reseources are very limited.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/239272.pdf
Of course, if you're denied and they don't prosecute or they don't
find you, no problem. You can still buy from a retail store (7.3%), a
pawnshop, flea market, or gun show (4.0%), buy or borrow it from a
friend or family member (36.3%), buy on the street or from a fence
(32.6%), or, if all else fails, steal it (7.5%). Maybe you "other" it.
<g> (22.3%).
Anyway, they all come from dealers to begin with, and then find their
way into the criminal market. In all but a small percentage of those
cases, the first purchaser was legal -- or appeared to be legal. Then
he either turned out to be a straw purchaser or left it in his
nightstand for easy pickings in a burglary.
See? It's not so hard. Not in the US of A, it's not. Hell, in some
states, you don't even have tell anyone what state you're from or
whether you're a criminal in order to make a private purchase. Guns
for all!
http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
(The last one is a brand new report, just released last week, for
statistics collectors like RD. <g>)
--
Ed Huntress