DOJ: 90 Percent of Criminals Obtain Firearms From Places OTHER Than Retailers

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The Department of Justice just updated its decades-old study asking criminals where they got the guns they used in committing the crime for which they were currently incarcerated. After asking 287,000 prisoners in 2016 where they got the gun they used, 90 percent of them “did not obtain it from a retail source” and less than one percent obtained it from a gun show.

The survey’s results are very similar to the study the DOJ completed back in 1997. Back then, 93 percent of criminals obtained the guns they used illegally.

– Bob Adelmann for The New American, Ninety Percent of Guns Used in Crime Not Obtained From Gun Stores/Shows