Holden was a convicted felon, and background check laws prevented him from purchasing a firearm legally. So he came up with a workaround that federal authorities say is part of a statewide trend: He recruited a friend to purchase guns in a place with fewer gun restrictions than the Bay Area — in this case, Las Vegas, Nevada — and bring them back. [More]With an average time-to-crime of 11.7 years, methinks the "pipeline" is clogged.
And what they're not saying, because that doesn't help them gin up the "OMG we need to grab guns everywhere!" hysteria, is that "not all firearms traced are used in crime," and that California, with its draconian disarmament diktats, was the source for 17,397 firearms in 2017, and "lax" Nevada was only the source for 1,554.
But hey, when you've got an agenda, nothing spooks the herd quite like anecdotes, right, Mercury "News"?
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