re: #117 HappyWarrior

I am sure Lawhawk will back me up on this but a lot of gun violence in New York, D.C, Baltimore, and other major Eastern cities. A lot o those guns come through Virginia which has lax laws.

The NYPD regularly reports that the majority of the firearms recovered in criminal acts in NYC are obtained in the Iron Pipeline.

Using gun-trace data provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the report shows that in 2009 ten states (Arizona, California, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia) supplied almost half the interstate-trafficked guns recovered at crime scenes.

The report also argues that the stricter a state’s gun laws are, the less likely that state is to export trafficked guns recovered at crime scenes. State reinforcement of federal penalties for providing false information when buying a gun, running background checks on buyers at gun shows, allowing local discretion to police when issuing concealed-carry permits, requiring purchase permits for handguns and allowing municipalities to set their own gun laws are all associated with lower gun-trafficking rates.

So, despite how strict the NYC laws are, the criminals are obtaining their guns in lax-law states and undermining the NY laws in the process.