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Gun Trafficking
John Philips’s alleged aspirations as a gun runner were complicated by the fact that he himself was banned from owning firearms, and therefore had no way to legally acquire the weapons he planned to traffic onto the streets of Chicago.
“Instead of just trying to catch the one guy on the corner with a gun, we’re going to figure out where it came from,” said Scott Shellenberger, the state’s attorney for Baltimore County.
Fixated on Latin American gangs like MS-13, the Trump administration tiptoes around a major source of their weapons.
Tens of thousands of firearms smuggled from the United States help to fuel extreme rates of violence south of the border.
Armed With Reason
Permit-to-purchase systems are backed by strong data. Is congressional legislation that would take the idea national the proposal more people should be debating?
