The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.
It’s that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.
The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don’t question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.
And the way the law is structured, that’s in their best interest.
If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don’t have to ask any other questions as a “private seller” and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can’t own a gun, the less questions the better.
The “private sale” loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.
Edit:
It also incentives those sales.
No gun store will pay as much as someone who can’t buy from a gun store.
So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.
Too fast, too furious…
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html
The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.
It’s that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.
The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don’t question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.
And the way the law is structured, that’s in their best interest.
If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don’t have to ask any other questions as a “private seller” and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can’t own a gun, the less questions the better.
The “private sale” loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.
Edit:
It also incentives those sales.
No gun store will pay as much as someone who can’t buy from a gun store.
So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.