Gun Crimes Linked To Lax Gun Laws

4:23 pm EST September 27th, 2010 | Crime | 5 Comments

Gee, shocker.

A study due to be released this week by a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns uses previously unavailable federal gun data to identify what it says are the states that most often export guns used in crimes across state lines. It concludes that the 10 worst offenders per capita, led by Mississippi, West Virginia and Kentucky, supplied nearly half the 43,000 guns traced to crime scenes in other states last year.

The study also seeks to draw a link between gun trafficking and gun control laws by analyzing gun restrictions in all 50 states in areas like background checks for gun purchases, policies on concealed weapons permits and state inspections of gun dealers. It finds that, across the board, those states with less restrictive gun laws exported guns used in crimes at significantly higher rates than states with more stringent laws. An advance copy of the study was provided to The New York Times.

The site Trace The Guns has some good interactive info on the flow of guns via lax gun laws.

Organizations like the NRA simply don’t care about gun crime and tamping down on this stuff.

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5 Responses to “Gun Crimes Linked To Lax Gun Laws”

  1. Ol'Froth says:
    September 27, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    The NRA is essentially the industry lobby for handgun manufacturers.

  2. Suicidal says:
    September 27, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    “A study due to be released this week by a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns”

    Yep, shocker.
    To be honest I expected Florida and Arizona to be much higher on the list.

    I wonder why gun deaths by state doesn’t mirror thier findings .

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    September 28, 2010 at 10:34 am

    ‘Organizations like the NRA simply don’t care about gun crime and tamping down on this stuff.’

    Sure they care; they want to see statistics like this increase exponentially in all 50 states.

    See, guns don’t kill people; people kill people.

    WITH GUNS.

  4. LongHairedWeirdo says:
    September 28, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    You know, there was a time I could deal with the RKBA folks. No, really. I had my Ruger Security Six – lovely pistol, stainless steel, 4 inch barrel, sighted in nicely, and I yearned for a custom grip so I could use a speedloader (not that I had any real *use* for a speedloader) – stolen and I feel a bit incomplete knowing I can’t go to the range and put some holes in paper.

    And I don’t like people acting like I’m a bad person because wow, that’s really cool. And *fun* – .357 magnums make a *big* bang. And, you know – *if* it came down to it, if I hit the bad luck lottery, maybe it would save my life. Exceptionally unlikely, but, hey, I’m a *damn* good (i.e.: *careful*) driver, and I still wear a seatbelt. I don’t think anyone’s ever going to try to kill me, but I like knowing I can hit center-of-mass at 30 feet.

    So, there was a time when I could have become an NRA lifer. Not any longer.

    Now, too many people make gun rights about fear. Making a church a “gun free” zone means that some nutball is going to shoot up a church. Be afraid, be very afraid, because this kind of thing happens *so often* that you need to consider it! (NB: No, it doesn’t happen often enough to be afraid of it – not for anyone who isn’t pathologically afraid.)

    Now, too many people want to make it about aggression. I find “Stand your ground” laws to be *hideous*. There’s *nothing* wrong with walking away to defuse a confrontation, if it’s safe to do so.

    They don’t make any sense any longer.

  5. Doug Odishoo says:
    October 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    I on A Gun shop in Connecticut. I could almost guarantee that in 5 years what happened in states like WV will be happening all across the country