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  But those people being stolen from will be sure to call themselves responsible gun owners without any hesitation to think about how being a responsible gun owner included properly securing your weapon. Last I checked, leaving a gun in a glove box or behind a seat is not properly secured. But they sure are responsible gun owners.
context: Would it kill all these news agency to link the articles, going to guess the news and data isnt as clear cut and there are some key information is left out. >
  
  They can't risk us clicking away from their shitty sites. Web analytics and marketing is a major reason why out news is trash. >
  
  The fairness doctrine being weaponized, and then repealed, is the actual reason though >
  
  It started with Operation Mockingbird >
  
  That was the, "weaponized" part of my comment. Good look on the link >
  
  Yeah sorry, I never waste an opportunity to talk about it 😂 >
  
  Haha right on, I wasn't trying to gatekeep my own comment. It's great to provide links etc. It's pretty funny that a law designed to be bipartisan, and eventually led to this current disaster, was first bent over by Kennedy and basically finished off by Nixon and friends. >
  
  A bunch of Glock switches came from I wanna say wish. Before the govt recognized what they were and stopped it 
  :Edit a Glock switch is the illegal device used to SWITCH a standard Glock to full auto. >
  
  What are they sold as on wish or did they literally just market glock switches on their site? >
  
  They marketed them as full auto airsoft conversions, was a good year or two where you'd see airsoft Glock switches on Wish that just so happened to look like real ones pop up as related on anything gun adjacent. >
  
  Right next to the "car solvent traps with baffle assembly" that was clearly a firearm supressor.
  Nice try ATF. >
  
  I still don't get why suppressors are banned, its not like the movies.  It just takes a ear popping noise to a slightly less ear popping noise >
  
  Logic has no part in this. Neither side of the gun debate wants to give up ground, whether a particular regulation makes sense or not.
  If our government was composed of functional adults who care about the country and its citizens, maybe they could compromise - suppressors and SBRs become legal without a tax stamp, in exchange for a few of the common sense gun laws the left has been asking for. But we don’t have that kind of system. >
  
  Love to see a rational approach to the issue. >
  
  "The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking turnaround between the time a gun was purchased and when it was recovered from a crime scene, indicating firearms bought legally are more quickly being used in crimes around the country.
  It also documents a spike in the use of conversion devices that make a semiautomatic gun fire like a machine gun, along with the growing seizure of so-called ghost guns, privately made firearms that are hard to trace." >
  
  Everything continues to get worse. Congrats NRA. >
  
  My money is on social media. Buy guns,  immediately tell all 986 people they "know" cause people are like that. >
  
  my money is on guns >
  
  Yeah, that is the problem.  My gun nut brother in rural red state america had a \~$50k gun collection but forced his wife and daughters to live in an unimproved 80 year old hovel he bought for $5k.
  When it came to finding evidence he was a POS, well, that was a lot of it. >
  
  That guy just sounds like an asshole, and happens to be a gun owner? >
  
  Yeah sounds like they're saying owning guns makes you an asshole lmao >
  
  Stolen guns are a huge problem.  My father in law has his house burglered and they took his entire safe. It must of been 4 men at least to lift into a truck.  Cops recovered exactly none of them. >
  
  A lot of people keep their firearms in their vehicles as well which are easily broken into. People in rural areas storing guns behind their seat or people in general sticking a handgun in the glovebox. If you're going to break into a car, checking for firearms would always be worth it given the likelihood of one turning up. Even in the reports it says that of the million stolen guns 96% were stolen from private citizens. That's a lot of guns.
  Edit: my hometown had a big problem with this. Rural bumblefuck God and guns county where it felt like every shitty pickup had a rifle and a shotgun behind the seat and a pistol in the glove box and they would just be left there unsecured. Shit was constantly getting stolen.