r/interestingasfuck • u/AdministrativeMud907 • 7d ago

A girl saves her boyfriend from a robbery by pointing a machine gun at two armed robbers.(Texas) r/all

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u/Dead_account_soon 7d ago

Street guns for the most part aren't just gone out and purchased at the local gun shop. You know a guy who knows a guy and you buy what he has on hand at the time. At least that's what a Houston cop told me.

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u/MyChristmasComputer 7d ago

Exactly.

This is also why it’s stupid when people say gun regulations don’t work because “there will always be a black market”.

Sure, the black market well always exist, but it will make it way more time consuming and expensive for criminals and give them way fewer options.

Black markets for guns even exist in peaceful Western Europe but gun crime is so low because for most criminals it’s just too expensive.

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u/Donny-Moscow 7d ago

Also because guns on the black market start out as legal purchases before they are lost/stolen/sold and end up on the black market.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 7d ago

Plenty of them start out as straw purchases, which are not legal.

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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 7d ago

Straw purchaser has to buy it from somewhere

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 6d ago

Sure, but it’s a criminal act of fraud, which makes the purchase itself not legal to begin with.

A huge amount of black market guns were never purchased legally at all.