Comments on: The Justice Department Releases Sort Of Useless Info http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/05/25/the_justice_department_releases_sort_of_useless_info/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heartless Libertarian http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/05/25/the_justice_department_releases_sort_of_useless_info/comment-page-1/#comment-83012 Heartless Libertarian Thu, 25 May 2006 23:09:37 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/05/25/the_justice_department_releases_sort_of_useless_info/#comment-83012 I'd say you're right. Also how long a seller has been in business. A shop that's been doing high volume business since the GCA passed in 1968 is going to show up in ATF traces quite a bit, I'd say. What would really be the key stat, in my mind, is the 'time to crime'-the time from when a gun leaves the dealer's shop to when it is used for something illegal. A dealer with a large number of gun traces (as a percentage of total sales) with a low time-to-crime number would be a true potential problem. And there's got to be a point on the time-to-crime spectrum beyond which the dealer's involvement is totally meaningless. I remember a story I saw over at Alphecca's that was trying, by way of misleading writing, to link a dealer who sold a gun something like 20 years ago to the killing of a cop just this year. Beyond absurd. I’d say you’re right. Also how long a seller has been in business. A shop that’s been doing high volume business since the GCA passed in 1968 is going to show up in ATF traces quite a bit, I’d say.

What would really be the key stat, in my mind, is the ‘time to crime’-the time from when a gun leaves the dealer’s shop to when it is used for something illegal. A dealer with a large number of gun traces (as a percentage of total sales) with a low time-to-crime number would be a true potential problem.

And there’s got to be a point on the time-to-crime spectrum beyond which the dealer’s involvement is totally meaningless. I remember a story I saw over at Alphecca’s that was trying, by way of misleading writing, to link a dealer who sold a gun something like 20 years ago to the killing of a cop just this year. Beyond absurd.

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