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Asked: How do gangsters get their guns?In a 2015 study by Philip J. Cook and Harold A. Pollack, they found criminals obtain guns mostly through their social contacts network rather than retail sales or direct theft of the gun.To summarize some of the findings from “Sources of guns to dangerous people: What we learn by asking them” we see how many criminals obtain guns.70% - social connections(friends and family) or with“street”sources18% - borrowing, renting, or holding the gun10% - licensed dealer (gun store or pawnbroker)In the above, “street sources” includes fences, drug dealers, brokers who sell guns, and gangs. It’s also important to understand that “family” may often include family members who are also part of a gang and/or have criminal records of their own.From “Sources of guns to dangerous people: What we learn by asking them”The state prisoner survey is largest and is the focus here, although it is reassuring that the results from the other two surveys are similar. First, it is rare for offenders to obtain their guns directly from the formal market: Only 10% of recently incarcerated state prison inmates who carried a gun indicate that they purchased that gun from a licensed dealer (gun store or pawnbroker). Rather, most of the transactions (70%) are with social connections(friends and family) or with“street”sources. The latter may include fences, drug dealers, brokers who sell guns, and gangs. It should be noted that“street”sources are not necessarily strangers—the survey questionnaire does not ask.Cash purchases and trades constitute about half of all transactions.About one in six are temporary arrangements involving a gun owned by someone else, and take the form of borrowing, renting, or holding the gun. Perhaps surprisingly, one in ten guns are gifts—but gifting of guns is also quite common in the population at large. Finally, the respondent admits to having stolen the gun in only a small fraction of cases, so it appears that theft is of scant importance as an immediate source of guns to gang members—despite the fact that there are something like 250,000 guns reported stolen each year in the U.S.(Langton, 2012). It should be noted that theft may play a greater role at an earlier stage of moving guns from the licit to the illicit sector.https://d3uwh8jpzww49g.cloudfront.net/sharedmedia/1508093/ccjstudy.pdfSome other interesting findings:“There are a number of myths about how criminals get their guns, such as most of them are stolen or come from dirty dealers. We didn’t find that to be the case,” said Philip J. Cook, a professor of public policy, economics and sociology at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy.Most of the guns were old (11 years old on average), and criminals held onto the guns a short time, frequently less than a year.Chicago gangs sometimes organize gun buys and distribute guns to members.“Dirty dealers,” who deliberately violate the law and sell to buyers who cannot pass a background check, accounted for less than 5 percent of the guns sold to gang members.15 percent of new crime guns confiscated from a man were first purchased by a woman, which suggests a straw purchase.Over 60 percent of the crime guns were initially purchased out of state.Of interest here is that recovered guns averaged 11 years old since they were first sold by a licensed dealer. Also that 60% of guns came from out of state.While that may lead many to believe this means criminals are going to states with lax gun laws to get guns, this may not be the case. Guns can be legally purchased out of state and the owner later moves to Illinois or Chicago with the gun where it is stolen. In 11 years, a gun can be legally sold several times before it enters the illicit markets.The study also notes that gangs sometimes organize gun buys for its members. How do they do this if criminal gang members cannot buy guns at retail? There are two ways this happens. First, by a “straw man” purchase where a person who can pass a background check — such as an acquaintance or girlfriend — is used to make a retail purchase for a gang member. The other is by working in concert with a gang in other city or state. In this case, gangs may use cash, drugs and/or their existing guns to pay the other gang. Arrests by various state police agencies seem to bear out that this is not an uncommon way to move guns around.Guns enter the illicit market place (aka “black market”) in several ways. Many are, of course, stolen guns. These can be guns stolen in burglaries of homes and businesses which are then “fenced” to illicit buyers. More recently, some gangs have organized burglaries of gun shops in “smash & grab” burglaries, like this one in Houston.Just like robbing a store or a bank where money is used to buy drugs or other items, gangs burglarize stores in this way to obtain guns, some of which they can use to trade for drugs or other goods with gangs in other cities or states.The other way guns get into the illicit market is by someone who has purchased a gun later selling the gun to someone with ties to gangs or criminal activity. This may be a legitimate sale to someone who could pass a background check who then trades the gun to a gang member or other criminal. Other situations can arise where a gun is used to pay off a debt (gambling, drugs, loans, etc.) or simply sold to raise cash after a job loss or unexpected expense. The sale may be to a coworker who has criminal involvement, for example.The idea that the so-called “universal background checks” will solve this problem is a fallacy. Criminals won’t buy from someone if they have to undergo a background check (currently, this can happen only at a licensed dealer). So they’ll resort to using a straw purchaser to obtain the gun instead or resort to an illicit street sale.The universal background check would also require some kind of federal registry of guns and their owners (illegal under current law). But this too is a fallacy. Such a registry, involving hundreds of millions of guns and people, will never be accurate as many people sell, buy and trade guns every year for legitimate purposes. Canada tried this several years ago and even with a population slightly more than just California, it was riddled with errors and was never used to solve a single crime.Thanks for reading.

The 2nd Amendment is codified in that part of the Constitution in what is called The Bill of Rights. Those are the rights of the people, the citizens, of the nation. If you look at the language of how each was written, each one either limits what the government can do or obligates the government to provide something for the citizen — like a fair and speedy trial or an attorney when charged with a crime.The 2nd Amendment says the people of our nation have a right to keep and bear arms. Not only that, it says that right shall not be infringed. In short, Congress can make no law diminishing the right (what actually is a permissible regulation is still up for debate).Rights are Rights and all are coequal.Constitutional rights, like voting, free speech, remaining silent when questioned, are things the government can’t ban us, as citizens, from exercising nor demand we see their permission before doing so. Rights are rights and they are all coequal. There’s no priority that one right is more important than another or that some rights are inferior to other rights.Most people think of “civil liberties” as freedom of speech, the freedom to travel in the US without government permission, the right to vote, to be secure from random or capricious searches by police, etc. But the 2nd Amendment says we also have the right to keep and bear arms, so that, too, is a civil right.Yet the 2nd Amendment and its attendant activities remain some of the most regulated of our civil rights. There’s a big argument over “Voter ID” laws with Democrats claiming it’s an unconstitutional burden on voters to obtain ID. Yet, they’re just fine with laws requiring ID to exercise the right to obtain a firearm. In fact, most places you have to show two forms of ID, fill out a questionnaire, and then wait for a “background check” to be performed so the government can give its permission for you to acquire the firearm. Now stop and think about applying those restrictions on other rights, like free speech or attending church. Or even obtaining a lawyer.And yes, our current gun control laws are not very effective. Repeated studies show the vast majority of criminals don’t walk into retail gun shops and buy guns. Nor do they frequent gun shows to obtain them. They obtain them from people they know in their own social circles — other criminals and sometimes family members (with or without permission). But almost all gun control is focused around the retail purchase of firearms. This is why the current National Instant Check System (NICS) shows less than 2% of applicants are rejected and about half of those are false-positives (people with similar names to criminals).Even a study by the Obama administration showed our gun laws were not effective in reducing crime, much less murder. Yet today, our firearm murder rate is at a historically low point below 3 per 100,000 of the population (based on 2015 FBI statistics). At the same time, according to statistics from NICS, Americans are buying more guns than ever. And women are the fastest growing segment of this trend. There’s also a potential argument that more citizens today are allowed to arm themselves for their own protection (some 15 million licensed in the U.S.) which acts as a modest deterrent to impulse crimes. Currently 14 states require no permit to carry a gun (such as Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, New Hampshire, Vermont) so the numbers many be even higher.

Regarding police verification here is a press note issued by the ministry f external affairs which I have copied from the link on Google. It may help you :Press NoteMinistry of External AffairsCPV DivisionPress NoteMinistry of External Affairs further liberalizes Police Verificationprocedure for passport issuance and launches a Mobile App to cutdelays in submission of Police Verification ReportPolice Verification (PV) has been an integral part of Passportissuance process since its inception. The modalities of policeverification have undergone various changes from time to time,whereas the principles have remained the same i.e., ascertaining theapplicant’s identity, citizenship and absence of criminal antecedents.Under the Passport Seva Project, the Ministry of External Affairs hasstreamlined Police Verification System for passport issuance bydigitally integrating 685 of 731 Police Districts in the country. Thishas led to overall reduction in the number of days taken to completepolice verification process to 34 days in 2015, as against 42 days in2014 and 49 days in 2013.2. In order to further improve and liberalize Police Verificationprocedure for passport issuance, the Government has decided thathenceforth normal passport applications of all first time applicantsfurnishing Aadhaar, Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC),Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card and an affidavit in theformat of Annexure-I will be processed on Post-Police Verificationbasis, enabling faster issue of passport, without payment of anyadditional fees, subject to successful online validation of Aadhaarnumber. In addition, EPIC and PAN card may also be validated, ifrequired, from the respective databases.3. In addition to the above, Ministry has also launched mPassportPolice App for speedy submission of Police Verification Report(PVR).The App would facilitate the field level verification officers to directlycapture the PV report into the system digitally. With the launch ofthis App, the need to download and print the physical PersonalParticulars Form and questionnaire would no longer be requiredresulting in paperless end-to-end digital flow of the PV process,further reducing the time required for completion of PVR, within thedesired time limit of 21 days.4. The issuance of passports and travel documents is the mostvisible citizen-centric service rendered by the Ministry of ExternalAffairs. During the year 2015, 1.20 crore passport and relatedservices were rendered by Passport Offices in India and the IndianMissions/Posts abroad. There is an increase of 21% over 2014 in thenumber of services rendered. As on 31st December 2015,approximately 6.33 crores Indians held valid passports.New Delhi25 January 2016For the police verification it is not necessary to get the reference done by your immediate neighbours .Police verification can be got done from two respectable persons of your neighbourhood or some other respectables of the society who can certify as to your clean image and that you have no criminal antecedents to the satisfaction of the police.Above is not a legal advise to constitute an attorney client relationship.