Please take 3.5 minutes out of your life to watch the below before reading any further:
https://www.youtube.com/v/J-fz249C2CM
Now that you hopefully have watched the above, (small hope in some cases I know), please respond surrounding:
A) How does any current legislation negatively impact the flow of the hundreds of weapons burglarized in the above incident into the hands of those who may not legally own or possess firearms under the law?
B) How does any proposed legislation negatively impact the same?
(Answer: It won't!)
The fact is this incident, and the untold number of similar that transpire every single day, are a main contributor to the issues this nation is experiencing today with illegal firearms. And yet, instead of looking for solutions to these incidents, we instead continue to saddle those who already faithfully meet and exceed the requirements to legally own firearms in this country, as we have for decades now.
Repeating and compounding an ineffective solution and expecting a different result is insanity! :mad:
More than 4,000 commercial firearms stores have been targeted like this in the last 3 years. 1.4 million firearms have been stolen between 2005 and 2010 alone. (BATF statistics). And yet, legal firearms owners are subjected to the only legislation enacted as a "cure" for the issue?
You cannot legislate compliance from those who will not abide by the laws in the first place. It's a money machine our elected officials are using to line their pockets; nothing more than a panacea to placate those who are being victimized by these thugs that obtain their firearms via illegal methods.
According to the latest available data, those who use guns in violent crimes rarely purchase them directly from licensed dealers; most guns used in crime have been stolen or transferred between individuals after the original purchase.
When firearms are purchased by a licensed dealer they are transported. Those means of transporting are frequently burglarized as employees of the companies doing the transporting learn to identify the contents of the "blind" containers containing valuables by the codes used to trace and track them. Frequently these events take place during motor vehicle transport or during overnight/prolonged stops within "secured" warehousing facilities. (I have personal experiences with this one; not as the their but as the ONLY individual that knew the event had happened outside of the perps. And I stopped it dead in its tracks).
The military is also a source for a small percentage of the illegal weapons on the black market in this nation, with fully automatic weapons and ordinance leaving military bases and facilities frequently without a trace. And apparently even Nukes, as many high ranking members of the military have been dismissed and charged over within recent years.