“Typically, if somebody steals a gun in Georgia and they try to sell it in Georgia, they’ll probably get less than what it’s worth. If you steal it here and take it to New York, you get four or five times what it’s worth.” – Perry, Georgia Police Chief Stephen Lynn in NYPD cop killed with gun stolen from shop in Georgia, where gun laws are lax [at nydailynews.com] (Auto-playing video after the jump) . . .
Five to six times their value? Starting to see my three hundred dollar S&W sd9 in a whole new light.
Also, what’s the markup on ammo? I’m just asking, for a friend. That’s writing a paper for school.
Lol.
ha ha ha…
No, no no. It’s Georgias weak gun laws that allow felons to steal guns and NY’s super strong common sense gun laws that keep felons from having guns.
Or something like that.
After watching the local news here I had to email the station. The broadcast starts out by saying the “gun” was stolen and ended by them blaming the lax “gun” laws in the Southern states.
Then chucky schumer gets on TV and repeats the same trash.
What they should be doing is going after the gang members who steal and traffic the firearms.
They did a sting and actually arrested nine gang members today.
what they should do is restore constitutionally sound laws regarding firearms in all the states and THAT will very nearly eliminate this kind of story.
Except isn’t the subject of this article that a LEO was killed with a *stolen* firearm?
I can’t wait to see how the logic gets twisted on that front. You see, when the populace is allowed to have guns, more guns are available to steal, which means that New York felons intent on murder will make the round trip, so that…
And so on. The problem isn’t that we have a thieving felon planning murder on the street, no, s/he’s just a misunderstood victim. The problem is lawful citizens owning power tools. In another state about 1000 miles away.
They should pass a law in NY banning guns from Georgia specifically no matter how they were acquired. Surely that will fix this.
I can’t wait to see how the logic gets twisted on that front. You see, when the populace is allowed to have guns, more guns are available to steal…
That is precisely the logic of the anti-gunners. One less legally owned gun* is one less gun that can be stolen.
* Out of a couple-hundred million or so.
What really bothers me is that in a situation like this they (NYers’) blame *other* states on their problems and want to impose federal laws restricting the rights of other states to *solve* their problems.
In CA a couple years back someone went on a murder spree with an AR. I remember thinking that they were gonna blame the fact that the murderer got the AR from a neighboring state and that’s why we need stronger *federal* gun bans
How ridiculous you sound about “NY banning guns from another state”. WTF is that gonna do? THE GUN WAS STOLEN. NY is already the strictest firearm state. Which is violating the lawfully abiding citizens 2nd amendment rights.
Website for you.
http://www.sarcasmsociety.com/how-to-recognize-sarcasm.html
A LEO’s life is worth much more than you and me, don’t you know.
When a non-LEO gets shot by a stolen gun, nobody cares… about the stolen gun from a more free state.
I thought the government could overrule the law of supply and demand.
Only if Congress passes FPAFA, the Family Protection and Affordable Firearms Act.
Because like health care, everyone has a right to self defense.
You win!
The gun laws in Georgia have nothing to do with the problem. Robbery is robbery in both locations.
If the bad guys ignore the anti-robbery laws, they sure won’t pay any attention to a gun law either.
Of course, I’m preaching to the choir.
Let’s see. Criminals break into a pawn shop and steal firearms. The guns end up in New York and Everytown blames it on Georgia’s “lax” gun laws. What nonsense!
As opposed to NY’s laxative gun laws, (I.e., they ain’t worth a sh…..)
“Now, some New Yorkers might actually think this is our fault, for making a black market out of a legal business and encouraging a culture of lawlessness with our progressive policies, but we insist on blaming our victims in Georgia, so, yeah…”
When NY PD chokes a man to death for selling cigarettes that already had the tax paid…I submit the state of NY gives a hi-ho F&$k about stolen guns in GA.
I don’t think taxes are paid on “loosies.” What would be the point of buying them?
Eric Garner wasn’t choked to death, his diet killed him. This particularly incident was just a trigger. He could have checked out in the squad car if had gone peacefully. His wife described him as a heart attack waiting to happen.
The point of buying them is you can’t afford a full pack.
We all know the gun ran away from the store and traveled to the big city to make it. He was then swallowed up by the despair of living in New Moscow and killed that cop
Interesting story…but DON’T auto-play video’s!!! I’ve had to pause the stupid thing 3 times after reading a story and then clicking on the back button!!!!
Don’t know what device you are using, but on a regular computer, I use Firefox with Flashblock add on.
Nothing plays until I click on it. I know when I use my Pad…I thing, it sucks, I hate it.
It was the lax gun laws that allowed this. If GA had UBC, the thief wouldn’t have been able to get the gun because they wouldn’t have been able to pass the BC.
We need a law that requires gun retailers to keep a pad of 4487s on the counter at night for theifs to fill out prior to stealing a firearm. That will fix it.
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The 4487 would the the new form demanded by the bureaucracy for “low income nocturnal” non-sales. 🙂
DOH!! Was working on my first cup of coffee. sorry.
How ironic is it that the government in the financial capital of the world doesn’t understand market economics?
Dang that’s about 30 mins north of me. Supposedly there is a trade route of sorts that runs from the south up the east coast for illegal guns. But all those guns were stolen from a pawn shop, so what difference does it make if the gun laws are “lax” here or not?
But if the law says stealing is illegal, and that owning a gun without a permit in NY is illegal, then how do they still have guns? Better pass another law that’ll ultimately be ignored, that’ll show them.
The problem isn’t the law in GA. It’s the over abundance of criminals in NY. The rest of the equation is just simple supply and demand. Lest anyone tell you differently, guns are stolen from NY retailers too and they most certainly make their way to where all the bad guys are – NYC.
Actually I think guns are stolen here too and then sold back when there is a “gun buy back” no questions asked program. (Which is quite frequently)
We should gave compassion for elective representatives. Where else could actionable policies contribute to enforcement failure and corrective action is limiting law abiding citizens public lawful self protection.
Another damn autoplay in the story–though at least it wasn’t in the part that shows up on the main page.
Worse, it’s an autoplay of 0bozo.
Wait, you mean to tell me prohibition creates a lucrative and thriving black market…
Yeeeaahh, I don’t think you understand how this Utopia thing works… Bad things don’t happen, mkay?
Perhaps GA should sue NY for driving crime to their state due to the artificial reduction of supply via regulation that is driving up the local prices and driving enterprising criminals to states that don’t have regulatory reduction in supply.
Regulation and prohibition can drive crime!
Remember, lax gun laws means,, wait for it
You can buy a gun!
We may have “lax” gun laws but we are pretty stringent on theft and that didn’t do shit to stop this.
Despite their best efforts at control, guns keep pouring into NYC’s from southern states that are willfully ignoring the morally superior laws that are intended to save people’s lives. The heathen southern states are practicing evil and need to be made purity of thinking the right way.
Sorta’ sounds like Muslims’ complaints about people drawing images of Allah.
As others have pointed out, I’m pretty sure theft is 100% illegal in all states, well except in California where it has to be an expensive gun. Furthermore federal law makes it illegal to sell a handgun out of state without going through and FFL
So no matter how lax the gun laws in Georgia, this particular transaction described above was felony illegal on two counts, and yet still happened.
So thank you New York for creating this market.
I’ll just leave this here.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/officers-accused-of-smuggling-guns-in-federal-corruption-case/?_r=0
Y’see, when a state makes it easier to buy guns, it encourages people to steal them.
Wait, what?
Well yeah…and Chiraq blames Indiana and other states for their crime. Capitalism folks…
Next comes the federal lawsuits from that cesspool New York demanding that the rest of the country devolve into the same sort of jackbooted totalitarian state. Mark my words, they’re gonna try that, and Bloomberg is gonna spend millions smearing law abiding people and shaming them into becoming just as defenseless and helpless as his own subjects.
I live in Georgia and “lax” gun laws means freedom to purchase a firearm IF YOU ARE NOT A CRIMINAL! Georgia gun dealers can refuse to sell a gun to anyone if they suspect something isn’t right! And they DO! Dealers sell plenty of firearms to turn down suspicious sales. If a criminal STEALS a firearm that doesn’t mean our firearm laws are lax. It means a criminal is a criminal. Speaking of stealing guns….Georgia would be one of the last places I would attempt to break in a Gun Store. Chances of getting caught/killed are way higher then other states. Residence of Georgia like guns and dislike criminals. We like it when good guys shoot and kill criminals!
It’s always funny, except it never is, when places like New York or Chicago blame neighboring states or even distant states and their alleged “lax” gun laws (like felony burglary and federal interstate trafficking?) as the cause of their so-called gun violence.
If those other states are oh so lax in gun laws, and that’s the proximate cause of gun violence, then why does that violence present hundred or thousands of miles away in anti-gun pockets like Chicago and NYC, and not in those lax law states themselves? Hmmm?
Why don’t those other states with “lax” gun laws experience that same level of gun violence? Why does the supposed source of the cause escape its effect, as do all of the other non-antigun states between Georgia and NYC and Chicago?
It almost suggests that maybe the problem isn’t Georgia or Virginia or whomever’s “lax” gun laws, but rather NYC and Chicago’s draconian gun laws and civilian disarmament. Could it be?
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