Reply #160: how many of those stolen guns

[gejohnston]

are stolen from the police? Given the microscopic number of guns diverted compared to the number of crimes prevented, I would say there is more baking soda than lighter fluid being dumped on the fire.

Edit to add, we are both old enough to remember street gang weapons before the war on drugs. They were mostly knives, tire chains, homemade maces. They could not afford guns, so the few that did were either zip guns or some $20 piece of shit made by Clerke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
none of these were legal:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/22/1090464799535.html

The French, Danish, and Polish freedom fighters made copies of the STEN sub-machine guns in bicycle repair shops and basements. I doubt the Nazi puppet governments gave them licenses to do so (which made their guns, illegal before they were legal)