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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by ralusek on Sunday March 14, 2021 @04:26PM (#26458778)
People legally buy guns and then distribute them illegally.
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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by zepto on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:33PM (#26460642)
Sure but the GP’s point they there is little overlap is correct.

Out of approx 400,000,000 guns, only very roughly 12,000 are used in crime. There is less than 0.01% overlap.

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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by jdkee on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:35PM (#26461189)
Not sure where you got this number from. The US had 13,500 firearm homicides in 2018.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/what-you-can-do/facts.html

If you include the number of persons shot but not killed directly you are looking at about 20x that number.

And that doesn’t include firearms used in other crimes of violence.

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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by zepto on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:22PM (#26461538)
If your numbers are correct, the overall point still stands.
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