Conducted by Garen J. Wintemute, a renowned gun researcher , public health expert and professor of emergency medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of California at Davis, the survey canvassed 1,601 federally licensed dealers and pawnbrokers in 43 states on how often attempts were made to acquire guns illegally and how sellers reacted to such attempts. Before the survey, there were almost no answers to those questions.
Among the findings, 67 percent of sellers had experienced at least one attempted straw purchase in the year before the survey, for an estimated 2,051 attempts, while 43 percent had experienced at least one attempted undocumented purchase. Extrapolated to nearly 10,000 similar sellers nationwide, that works out to 33,800 attempted straw purchases a year, and 37,000 attempted undocumented purchases.
via Real Data on Illegal Gun Sales – NYTimes.com.
In total, we have 70,800 extrapolated cases of people trying to circumvent the law. This study was made in 2011 and checking the NICS numbers for that year, we have a total of 16,454,951 firearms sold. That means that 0.43% of transactions at gun shops were attempts to break the law, less than half of one percent or 99.57% of all firearm transactions at gun shops were done by good honest people.
This is why Gun Control people hate us, the numbers keep supporting our side.
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