50,000 illegal guns recovered in DC Metro area since 2000

Of course, everyone knows that the nation’s capital has among the most restrictive gun laws in the country, they have since they all but banned firearms within it’s borders nearly thirty years ago. So, how’s that going for them? According to the Washington Post, between the District and neighboring Prince Georges County, police have taken over 50,000 illegal guns off of the streets in the last 13 years.

Still, a Washington Post analysis shows that the guns keep rolling in. District police recovered about 2,000 guns last year, and Prince George’s collected about 1,200. That compares with 700 guns recovered in Montgomery County and about 600 guns taken in Fairfax County. Arlington County police confiscated 60.

Funny how that works, huh? Virginia has less restrictive gun laws than either the District or Maryland and fewer illegal guns on the street. Sounds simple to me what the solution would be, but, the Post, instead of blaming criminals carrying guns, blames legal gun owners;

The recoveries reflect a gun-saturated society in which an estimated 300 million firearms are in public hands, by far the highest level of gun ownership in the world. In the national gun-control debate, a salient fact often has been overlooked: Legislative efforts aimed at curtailing the availability of the most lethal weapons merely play at the margins of this huge gun population.

The Post keeps on cranking out statistics which would convince a rational person that less restrictive gun laws would make for fewer illegal guns, but the truth goes right over their pointy little craniums;

In Chicago, police seized 2.2 firearms that year for every 1,000 residents. In Baltimore, officers confiscated 3.8. The District’s rate was 2.5, and Prince George’s was 1.5.

Nearly 70 percent of the handguns seized were semiautomatic pistols, most often 9mm models, with magazines of varying capacity. The rest were mostly revolvers, typically .38-calibers, which hold six rounds. Handguns by Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Taurus and Glock were most common. Confiscated handguns ranged from .380-caliber Bryco pistols that can be purchased secondhand for less than $100 to brand-new polycarbonate Glock 17s that cost $600.

“Handguns are easy to conceal,” said Mike Campbell, an ATF spokesman. “Somebody walking down the street with a rifle or shotgun is going to get noticed.”

Yet, most of the legislation that has been proposed and passed recently has been to restrict rifles and shotguns. Probably because the image of a scary black long gun is easier to sell to the public than an innocuous handgun.

So the gun grabbers are grasping at straws, and that’s why they’ve been ineffective getting any new gun control laws through the various legislatures. Until they start proposing stuff to deal with the criminals instead of the law abiding gun owners, no one is going to pay attention. It’s not the fault of the NRA, it’s the gun grabbers’ fault for not having a coherent, feasible policy. And their spokesmen are morons.

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