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  • Doug

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    It seems a lot of people who have guns shouldn't have them.
    When the Police find an prohibited person with a gun, do they ask where he/she got it? Do they attempt to prosecute those who knowingly supply weapons to prohibited people?
    Anybody know?
     

    BigRed

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    Eric Holder, Barry's attorney general, provided numerous firearms to prohibited persons.... but he wasn't prosecuted for it as "less equal" people are.
     

    bwframe

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    Kirk Freeman

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    It seems a lot of people who have guns shouldn't have them.
    When the Police find an prohibited person with a gun, do they ask where he/she got it? Do they attempt to prosecute those who knowingly supply weapons to prohibited people?
    Anybody know?

    Depends. From what I have seen:

    Criminal organizations: stolen (UPS, warehouses, and trains where I am) and professional gun runners (they hit the shows and Hoover up all the guns they can find). The feds prosecute a few, especially those working the gun shows in Indiana. Heck, even when I was at Galyan's we got straw buyers buying for Indy gangs.

    Robbers: stolen or borrowed from family or friends as the gun is USUALLY a one and done (if they are smart)

    Drug dealers: Traded for drugs, black market guns.

    Crim Reck: likely legally purchased

    Murderers: friends and family. Of course, my most (in)famous one the murderer purchased it legally.
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    I can't speak universally, but I've *never* gotten much beyond "from sumdood" with even a cooperative robbery suspect who's come off the robbery. I know there have been some prosecutions for people providing weapons in murders, such as the recent news of charges on those who'd provided guns to suspects who had killed police officers in Indiana.
     

    HoughMade

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    I can't speak universally, but I've *never* gotten much beyond "from sumdood" with even a cooperative robbery suspect who's come off the robbery. I know there have been some prosecutions for people providing weapons in murders, such as the recent news of charges on those who'd provided guns to suspects who had killed police officers in Indiana.

    Let me guess, everyone got the gun from their cousin and they can't remember their cousin's name.
     
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