Ah but the problem is defining an illegally owned gun.
I could go buy a gun from some dude on the street, or at a gun show and that’s… perfectly legal. The (federal) law right now is basically ‘you can sell a gun to someone in your state, as long as you don’t have good evidence they’re going to go shoot someone’.
Which, you know, you simply do not ask them.
So as to the guns being owned illegally… maybe, maybe not: it’s not hard to own a gun legally even though the rest of the planet is now recoiling in horror about what that term actually means.
The Glock switches are for sure federally illegal, but getting the ATF to do anything other than smuggle guns into Mexico is probably impossible given how fucked up they are. And I mean, they’re 3d-printed, so how do you even reasonably enforce that?
You should probably read/know the actual law, rather than just getting it close. You’re probably referring to [18 USC 922 (d) (10)]((https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:18 section:922 edition:prelim)), which includes any felony-- not just shooting. That’s one of 11 listed requirements in that section, which assumes that the first requirement (a) (1) is met: not an interstate nor foreign transaction. There’s a lot more to it than just “as long as you don’t have good evience they’re going to go shoot someone”
Even after the sale, ownership is still illegal under section (g)-- it just isn’t the seller’s fault anymore.
This is basic information that should be known to any gun safety advocate. “Responsible” gun owners must know those laws, plus others backward and forward. One small slip-up is a felony, jail, and permanent loss of gun ownership/use. Are they really supposed to listen to those who can’t even talk about current law correctly?
The law can be better, but you won’t do yourself any favors by misrepresenting it.
Ah but the problem is defining an illegally owned gun.
I could go buy a gun from some dude on the street, or at a gun show and that’s… perfectly legal. The (federal) law right now is basically ‘you can sell a gun to someone in your state, as long as you don’t have good evidence they’re going to go shoot someone’.
Which, you know, you simply do not ask them.
So as to the guns being owned illegally… maybe, maybe not: it’s not hard to own a gun legally even though the rest of the planet is now recoiling in horror about what that term actually means.
The Glock switches are for sure federally illegal, but getting the ATF to do anything other than smuggle guns into Mexico is probably impossible given how fucked up they are. And I mean, they’re 3d-printed, so how do you even reasonably enforce that?
You should probably read/know the actual law, rather than just getting it close. You’re probably referring to [18 USC 922 (d) (10)]((https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:18 section:922 edition:prelim)), which includes any felony-- not just shooting. That’s one of 11 listed requirements in that section, which assumes that the first requirement (a) (1) is met: not an interstate nor foreign transaction. There’s a lot more to it than just “as long as you don’t have good evience they’re going to go shoot someone”
Even after the sale, ownership is still illegal under section (g)-- it just isn’t the seller’s fault anymore.
This is basic information that should be known to any gun safety advocate. “Responsible” gun owners must know those laws, plus others backward and forward. One small slip-up is a felony, jail, and permanent loss of gun ownership/use. Are they really supposed to listen to those who can’t even talk about current law correctly?
The law can be better, but you won’t do yourself any favors by misrepresenting it.