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A piece of advice that I have learned from many years of bitter experience. People never tell you something because the information will benefit you. They tell you something because you having the information will benefit them. So, the primary thing to do is to work out why what they are...

The problem is that you are using a very narrow source base. Chicago is a very dubious source for any kind of data since the agencies there sing the company song (ie Democrat) to the exclusion of anything else. However, Illinois is itself a highly anomalous case since most of the illegal...

Street gangs who are the most prolific users of illegal weapons buy cheap stuff smuggled in from abroad. Remember a straw purchase may be illegal and covert but the buyer is still paying full retail price. Smuggled weapons (which come in daily across the northern and southern borders and...

Major sources for black market guns are weapons stolen from Army or Police arsenals (this is the major source of cartel weaponry with South American military personnel doing a lively trade in depot stores), and smuggled weaponry from the Far East or from Eastern European countries. Other...

It's worth noting that Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership (The 2017 report from Small Arms Survey has estimated that the number of civilian-held firearms in Switzerland is of 2.332 million, which given a population of 8.4 million corresponds to a gun ownership of around...