Where do the people selling guns on the illicit market get their supply?
Wachtel: Well, the gun most favored in the illicit market place is the new unblemished .380 caliber or 9mm pistol. And there’s only two ways that you’re going to be able to acquire quantities of these kinds of weapons. One is by going to either a federal firearms dealer or distributor, if you have a federal firearms license, and buying these guns or you’re going to steal them from a federal firearms licensee. There’s really no third way of getting ’em. So the unlicensed street dealers who are often pedaling these guns will try to find a corrupt licensee. Someone who is willing to pass on quantities of guns to them but not keep any paperwork. We also have a problem with straw purchasers, people who buy guns on behalf of others. A lot of these episodes are just one friend buying guns, a gun for someone who is perhaps a felon or a juvenile. Some episodes are almost commercial acts of straw purchases where you have three of four people, for example gang members, getting together, going to
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