Crime and Criminals | Chapter 2 Preface

Opponents of gun control have long argued that any restrictions on the purchasing and use of guns to prevent criminals from obtaining the weapons would be ineffective. Criminals steal their guns, they maintain, not buy them. Therefore, the gun rights advocates assert, gun control regulations merely restrict the rights of legal buyers who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

A study released late in 1998 using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms appears to refute that argument, however. The study traced the origins of guns that were used in homicides...

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