ED: And any one who wants to buy a gun in any city in this country can do so, For less tha $100.00 and less than 24 hours.
Also see this page. By Marianne W. Zawitz
BJS Statistician
How often are guns used in violent crimes?
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), almost 43.6 million criminal victimizations occurred in 1993, including 4.4 million violent crimes of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault. Of the victims of these violent crimes, 1.3 million (29%) stated that they facedn offender with a firearm.* In 1993, the FBI's Crime in the United States
estimated that almost 2 million violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were reported to the police by citizens. About 582,000 of these reported murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults were committed with firearms.
Murderwas the crime that most frequently involved firearms; 70% of the 24,526 murders in 1993 were committed with
firearms. How do we know about the guns used by criminals?
No national collection of data contains detailed information about all of the guns used in crimes. Snapshots of
information about the guns used by criminals are available from official police records concerning the
guns recovered in crimes and reports gathered from victims surveys that interview criminals surveys that interview victims
of crime. From these sources, we know how often guns are involved in crime, how guns are used in crime, what general
categories of firearms are most often used in crime, and, to a limited extent, the specific types of guns most frequently used by criminals. Bureau of Justice Statistics Selected Findings Although most crime is not committed with guns, most gun crime is committed with handguns.
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