Gun report: NC exports many guns used in crimes

[onehandle]

RALEIGH -- Last year, ten states supplied almost half of the guns that cross state lines and then were used in crimes. North Carolina is one of those states. According to a report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a majority of those guns ended up along the East Coast.

Advocates against gun violence say that overall, the report has good news, though, because fewer guns left the state than in previous years.

“I think some of what has helped has been not what laws have been passed, but the enforcement of these laws,” says Roxane Kolar of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence. “I think that law enforcement has had more tools at their disposal and has more resources, and more community interaction between law enforcement.”

Guns are also being brought into North Carolina for crimes. The report shows most come from our neighbors to the north and south, Virginia and South Carolina.

http://charlotte.news14.com/content/local_news/triad/630861/gun-report--nc-exports-many-guns-used-in-crimes

[X_Digger]

1. Gosh, enforcement of existing laws? *gasp* n/t

[safeinOhio]

2. Do you mean

the commerce clause?

:think:

[X_Digger]

6. The commerce clause isn't a law, it's a power.

If you'd read the article, you'd see- "They include allowing criminal penalties for buying a gun for someone who can't"- a straw purchase. That's an existing federal law that is enforced.

[krispos42]

3. No surprise there

Supply and demand.

[proteus_lives]

4. Ban North Carolina. It's the only way we'll be safe.

[virginia mountainman]

5. LOL thing is, North Carolina has a "purchase permit" system for handguns

You must get a permit, to purchase ANY handgun...

The Sheriff must sign off on EVERY HANDGUN purchase..

http://www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/SheriffsOffice/HandgunPermits/tabid/1473/Default.aspx

[benEzra]

7. You mean the same NC rated 13th strictest in the nation by the Brady Campaign?

NC is one of the stricter gun-control states, a legacy of Jim Crow. Among other things, you have to get written permission from your usually-white sheriff attesting to your "good moral character" (guess what that meant in 1955) to buy a handgun anywhere, even in a private sale, unless you have a CHL (and to get one of those, you have to jump through more hoops than in most bluer states).

NC has a very strong authoritarian streak. We were in the news last week because state LE organizations wanted to be able to browse the medical records of pretty much anyone in the state, without warrant or probable cause, to make sure none of us are taking more medicines than they approve of, as I recall. That's a pretty startling invasion of medical privacy.

[SteveM]

8. The body-guarded Bloomberg should take note: enforce the laws. nt

[Tejas]

9. Interordnance is based in Monroe, NC - nt

[Pavulon]

10. Oh my gawd..

so why would we export guns and then import them? sounds like a push piece to me.

[spin]

11. If you stopped all manufacture and sales of firearms ...

in the United States and somehow managed to confiscate all privately held firearms, smugglers would bring them into our country from all over the world. Actual assault rifles with fully automatic capacity would be readily available to criminal gangs.

Banning and prohibition never work. If you don't believe me just check out the success of our War on Drugs.