-=> ARELOR wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

AR> If they were scared of guns manufactured in underground workshops being
AR> used for active shootings, it would be interesting to see how many
AR> unregistered guns have been manufactured and used for one of those in
AR> an underground workshop. I bet not many. Spain is an example of a
AR> country with a tight supply of commercial weapon parts, which makes it
AR> the sort of place in which baddies would turn to underground
AR> manufacturing, and while there are underground blacksmiths, baddies
AR> main sources of guns here are civil war stashes, corrupt law enforcers
AR> an Eastern Europe Smugglers.

AR> Afaik homemade guns are explicitly legal in a number of US States.

Yeah - the rhetoric is that 'ghost guns' are behing used in crimes and
it's impossible to trace them. BUT - I've seen NOTHING in that regard
in any reported data. I'm a legal gun owner. If I decide to manufacture
my own custom build, I'm in no more danger of using it for a crime than
any of the other guns I own.

By the same token, a 'crook' that likes to use a gun for armed robbery
or in a gang shooting? Why would they assemble parts at home that need
time, attention and elbow grease when they can just buy one on the black
market, or steal one?

.... As my grandfather had said in his last words, "A TRUCK!"
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Re: Re: Re:
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ARELOR on Sun Jun 26 2022 01:15 pm

> -=> ARELOR wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
>
> AR> If they were scared of guns manufactured in underground workshops being
> AR> used for active shootings, it would be interesting to see how many
> AR> unregistered guns have been manufactured and used for one of those in
> AR> an underground workshop. I bet not many. Spain is an example of a
> AR> country with a tight supply of commercial weapon parts, which makes it
> AR> the sort of place in which baddies would turn to underground
> AR> manufacturing, and while there are underground blacksmiths, baddies
> AR> main sources of guns here are civil war stashes, corrupt law enforcers
> AR> an Eastern Europe Smugglers.
>
> AR> Afaik homemade guns are explicitly legal in a number of US States.
>
> Yeah - the rhetoric is that 'ghost guns' are behing used in crimes and
> it's impossible to trace them. BUT - I've seen NOTHING in that regard
> in any reported data. I'm a legal gun owner. If I decide to manufacture
> my own custom build, I'm in no more danger of using it for a crime than
> any of the other guns I own.
>
> By the same token, a 'crook' that likes to use a gun for armed robbery
> or in a gang shooting? Why would they assemble parts at home that need
> time, attention and elbow grease when they can just buy one on the black
> market, or steal one?
>
>
>
>
> ... As my grandfather had said in his last words, "A TRUCK!"

I agree. Black market pistols are abundant. Sub $200 gunssell for $500 or more
in Detroit from the back of a car.

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