tazzygirl
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An intelligent post on the subject for once, way to go.
Why would you bother to read a post by someone you always accuse of never making an intelligent post?
Honestly, why not just place me on hide. The put down is bullshit and uncalled for. Simply because you dont agree with a post doesnt make it unintelligent Or didnt they teach you that in school?
As to the on line report, think progress merely reported the findings..
The internet revolution created extraordinary opportunities
for commerce to be conducted at the click of a mouse.
Instant access to almost unlimited choices and to vast
communities of buyers and sellers is a principal asset of
e-commerce. This feature, however, can also pose unique
challenges for law enforcement.
Over the last 15 years, a significant share of the firearms
trade in the United States has moved online. The
precise volume of online sales is largely unknown – and,
under current law, unknowable, because many of these
transactions create no record that would allow them to be
counted.
Even so, it is obvious that the online market for firearms
is vast. Nearly 12 years ago, the Department of Justice
estimated that 80 online firearm auction sites and
approximately 4,000 other sites featured guns for sale.
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This year, on 10 websites alone, investigators for the City
of New York found more than 25,000 guns for sale.
The online trade in firearms is, in most respects, identical
to the online trade in any other legal product: the vast
majority of sales are an efficient, convenient extension of
the bricks-and-mortar marketplace.
In other respects, guns are different. In the wrong hands,
they are uniquely lethal threats to public safety. For that
reason, federal law bars certain categories of particularly
dangerous people from purchasing firearms – online or
anywhere else.
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But legal loopholes that have long undermined
enforcement of this prohibition in traditional markets
are proving even more serious in the digital space. In
the words of an ATF spokesman, “If people are inclined
to break the law, the internet provides them with more
sources.”
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It can also provide them with the relative
anonymity in which criminal activity can thrive.
Every day, firearms transactions are conducted on
thousands of websites among largely anonymous actors.
Criminal buyers who once had to purchase in person
can now prowl hundreds of thousands of listings to find
unscrupulous sellers. Negotiations can be conducted
from the discreet remove of a phone call or an email
exchange.
Federally licensed firearms dealers are required to
conduct background checks on all buyers to prevent
sales to felons, the mentally ill, domestic abusers and
other prohibited purchasers.
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These screenings are
required whether the sale is made on Main Street or over
the internet.
But unlicensed “private sellers” – those who are not “in
the business” of selling firearms – do not have to conduct
background checks.
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These sales – which take place in
many venues, including gun shows and, increasingly, on
the internet – account for about 40 percent of U.S. sales,
and fuel the black market for illegal guns.
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And they leave
no electronic or paper trail behind them.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cjc/downloads/pdf/nyc_pointclickfire.pdf
The City of NY... not Think Progress... not Amanda Peterson Beadle.
Maybe if you actually did some brackground work, you would find those posts you believe are not "intelligent" by your standards may actually hold quite a bit of weight and value.
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Szheeeeeesh it was a compliment, a decent post and I learned something I didn't know. 
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