"The United States is the easiest and the cheapest place for drug traffickers to get their firearms, and as long as we are the easiest and cheapest place for the cartels to get their firearms there'll continue to be gun trafficking," said J Dewey Webb, the special agent in charge of pursuing weapons traffickers in Texas at the US Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Experts from the Harvard School of Public Health, using data from 26 developed countries, have shown that wherever there are more firearms, there are more homicides.
And cities like Chicago are plagued by the illegal trafficking of firearms; there is no current federal law that defines gun trafficking or straw purchasing as a crime.
It was generally believed that criminals and juveniles stole their guns, or borrowed them from friends, and that given the nation's 200 million firearms, there was little anyone could do to stanch the supply.
Despite the existence of 456,930 BATFE registered fully automatic firearms, there have been only two documented murders involving NFA registered machine guns since 1968.
When talking about firearms, there is only one noticeable difference that sets the U.S. apart from the rest of the world: No country has more guns than we do.
For instance, though felons are generally barred from owning firearms, there are plenty of states where there are exceptions to that rule even for people who have a history of violent crimes.
Unlike firearms, there's no way to "point" a grenade at your enemies so that is selectively deals to damage to them — grenades will indiscriminately hit anything, friend or foe, that's within their blast radius.
More accurately, he nags at Candy, suggesting strongly that he take out his firearm right there, then aim and shoot.
Firearm owners there are not required to have a license, and do not have to register their weapons.
