Boots wrote:
stephpd wrote:
... Also note there's over 1000 charges, each year, for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and a conviction rate of about 12%.
And, it actually
fell from a conviction rate of
14.0% in 2010 to
9.8% in 2011.
I was averaging out the two using rough math.
What's worse is that they were talking about straw purchases and how SB16,18 would 'help them in going after the people that do straw purchases. Yet the bill wasn't about straw purchases but lost or stolen. Totally different things.
Going by the ATF's estimates 47% of 'illegal' guns are from straw purchases. Lost or stolen guns at the bottom of the list at about 10%. And straw purchases are already illegal according to state law.
§ 1455. Engaging in a firearms transaction on behalf of another; class F felony; class C felony.A person is guilty of engaging in a firearms transaction on behalf of another when the person purchases or obtains a firearm on behalf of a person not qualified to legally purchase, own or possess a firearm in this State or for the purpose of selling, giving or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person not legally qualified to purchase, own or possess a firearm in this State.
Engaging in a firearms transaction on behalf of another is a class F felony for the first offense, and a class C felony for each subsequent like offense.
With over 1000 arrests, each year, for possession of a firearm during a commission of a felony you'd come up with about 500 straw purchases each year too. Yet the number for that is 2-3 each year and no convictions. 0% conviction rate.
Yet they want to turn us all into felons for what has been a perfectly legal activity for as long as we've been a state.
