It's hard to see how their ancient data could be relevant today. In
1998, there were 900,000 NICS checks. The next year, 1999, there were 9
MILLION. A ten-fold increase. Since January 2009 (and Obama took
office), there have been 57 MILLION checks through the NICS system.
That understates the number of guns legally transferred because each
check may cover many firearms.
Remember that private sales do not require a NICS check so there are
MILLIONS of additional legal transfers.
In an imaginary world where every charged criminal every year (1) used
a gun for every violent crime AND (2) used a different gun for each
crime, A COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC SCENARIO, the number of acquisition
transactions would be about a million. That
is 1/15 or 6.7%. The real percentage is likely to be less than 2%
because gang members share guns and the "pot" of illegal guns that
re-circulates among the criminal marketplace is pretty stable.
****************************************************************************************************************
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M.
o- 651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037)
f- 651-523-2236
St. Paul, MN 55113-1235
c- 612-865-7956
jol...@gw.hamline.edu
http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html
>>> "Guy Smith" <g...@gunfacts.info> 12/28/2012 5:37 PM >>>
Referencing Cook’s “Guns in America”
(https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf):
Any criticisms on Cook’s survey methods, and does anyone have a viable
estimate on the number of criminal transactions (as a percent of all
transactions) in any given year?
Guy Smith
Author, Shooting The Bull (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983240701/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0983240701&linkCode=as2&tag=frethimed-20
)
_______________________________________________
To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see
http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private.
Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can
read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the
messages to others.
