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Gun owners have been saying it for decades: politicians should focus on enforcing existing gun laws rather than creating new ones. (Photo: City of Plantation Florida Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A new study from researchers at Duke and the University of Chicago suggests that stricter enforcement of current gun laws would have an \u201cimmediate and substantial impact on gun crime\u201d because most criminals obtain their firearms illegally and within six months of committing a crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study, recently published in the Journal of Urban Health<\/a>, used data from a survey of 221 inmates in Chicago to investigate how and when criminals obtain firearms. While current research has proven that firearms take many years to move from the legal to illegal markets, Harold A. Pollack and his colleagues wanted to know how much time elapses within the \u201clast link\u201d\u2014the time between a person obtaining a firearm and committing a crime with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on responses obtained in the Chicago Inmate Survey, the researches concluded that 68 percent had obtained their \u201cprimary gun\u201d (the gun they had in their possession at the time of their arrest) less than six months prior. In addition, of the 150 respondents who were armed at the time of their arrest, 42 percent had not been armed at all six months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cook, P.J., Pollack, H.A. & White, K. J Urban Health (2019). https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.baylor.edu\/10.1007\/s11524-019-00358-0 <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Furthermore, relatively few active criminals bought their firearms from gun stores but rather obtained\u00a0guns from their social connections or off-the-books transactions that constitute the underground gun market<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly 1% of all the guns were acquired at a store, and none\nof the respondents mentioned a gun show or the Internet as a source,\u201d the study\nnotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers thus concluded that policymakers and law enforcement should focus on enforcing current gun laws that already prohibit these transactions from taking place. If, hypothetically speaking, all of these transactions had been intercepted within the last six months, the effect on gun-related crime would have been massive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current findings suggest that more effective\nenforcement of existing regulations could have an immediate and substantial\neffect on gun crime,\u201d researchers conclude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The study also notes in its final paragraph how these findings\ncut against the contention that more guns in civilian hands leads to a higher availability\nof firearms to criminals and, in turn, more crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not the stock but the flow of guns that arms\ncriminals, since criminal use tends to follow transactions within a few weeks\nor months,\u201d researchers say. \u201cIt is true that the current stock of guns in\nprivate hands is the source for a large percentage of transactions in the\nunderground gun market (the main exception being straw purchases of new guns\nfrom dealers), but those transactions, because they are illegal, often have\nhigh transactions costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers admit that their study is limited to one jurisdiction (Chicago) and utilizes a sample that, while consisting of gun-involved offenders, is not necessarily representative of the adult population of Chicago offenders who commit gun assault, murder, and robbery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: UK Gun Ban Not Working, Gun Crime is on the Rise<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But they nonetheless offer their findings as a real solution to the problem of gun-related violence in the United States. If, as law-abiding gun owners have been suggesting for decades, politicians would focus on enforcing existing gun laws rather than imposing greater restrictions on Second Amendment rights, a larger percentage of criminals would not be able to obtain the firearms with which they commit crimes. While these individuals might nonetheless commit violent actions, at least anti-gun politicians would not be able to use criminal activity as a smokescreen for disarming American citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If the task is finding every gun, that feels hopeless,” Pollack told UChicago News<\/a>. “But if you focus on hindering or interfering with the transaction of guns, that doesn\u2019t seem quite as hopeless.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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