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The vast majority of firearms offenders (88.8%) sentenced under §2K2.1 (primary federal firearms guidelines) were prohibited from possessing a firearm.

• Prohibited persons include
offenders with a prior felony conviction
or status in another prohibited class,
such as aliens unlawfully in the United
States, fugitives from justice, or persons
who unlawfully use or are addicted to
controlled substances.

Paladin wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:24 am Sentencing Commission Report on Guns Should Be Required Reading for Congress

What Do Federal Firearms Offenses Really Look Like?

The vast majority of firearms offenders (88.8%) sentenced under §2K2.1 (primary federal firearms guidelines) were prohibited from possessing a firearm.

• Prohibited persons include
offenders with a prior felony conviction
or status in another prohibited class,
such as aliens unlawfully in the United
States, fugitives from justice, or persons
who unlawfully use or are addicted to
controlled substances.

Want to reduce crime? Enforcing existing laws would be a start.

Paladin wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:24 am Sentencing Commission Report on Guns Should Be Required Reading for Congress

What Do Federal Firearms Offenses Really Look Like?

The vast majority of firearms offenders (88.8%) sentenced under §2K2.1 (primary federal firearms guidelines) were prohibited from possessing a firearm.

• Prohibited persons include
offenders with a prior felony conviction
or status in another prohibited class,
such as aliens unlawfully in the United
States, fugitives from justice, or persons
who unlawfully use or are addicted to
controlled substances.

Want to reduce crime? Enforcing existing laws would be a start.

Rafe wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:20 pm So, let me get this straight. Of the gun crimes that were prosecuted in FY 2021, 88.8% of the perpetrators were classified as a prohibited person. Even my little brain can understand--so I'd think most politicians also should be able to understand--that existing laws, laws already on the books, mean that it was already and patently illegal for the person to touch a firearm in the first place. Who'd have thought?

That 88.8% of prohibited people included 2.9% who are illegal aliens and 1.2% who were under felony indictment. And a whopping 79% were already convicted felons.

Well, the obvious solution then, as Bloomberg and Pelosi and Schumer have said all along, is to institute universal background checks, close the gun show loophole, and make an arbitrary classification of semi-automatic firearms into prohibited weapons! No-brainer!

But wait. Laws that already exist are, clearly, being broken by--surprise!--people that break the law. And the data goes on to tell us that 32.4% of the guns recovered in 2021 crimes were stolen firearms and/or had the serial numbers filed off. Say it ain't so! All good radical-lib-leftists have been preaching for years that crime is all about the gun show loophole! How can almost a third of all gun crimes prosecuted involve firearms that were stolen and had their serial numbers purposely removed? Further, an additional 3.1% of those guns were specifically tracked to illegal black-market trafficking of stolen guns?

Sorry, what? You say almost one-fourth of all guns used in those 2021 crimes were already considered prohibited weapons under the law in the jurisdictions where the crimes were committed? That simply can't be true. That would mean criminals are ignoring all our existing laws anyway, and that they won't give a rat's royal derrière if new laws come down from the Hill.

Violent criminal actors will just keep on breaking every law on the books until we start enforcing those laws and putting some teeth into that enforcement? Radical new laws that subvert and sabotage the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States will simply take common firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens and leave those citizens defenseless against a national rising sea of violent crime?

This is earthshaking news. It's going to take a while to sink in...

OneGun wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:43 am So, politicians need to replace gun control with criminal controls. So, easy, even a caveman can understand that. Just not Democrats.