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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
The struggle to figure out how Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev obtained their weapons began almost immediately after the manhunt ended, but very little has yet been discovered, thanks in part to policies pushed by the NRA that obfuscate how a criminal gets his or her weapons.
While law enforcement has argued that it would be helpful to be able to trace weapons to their source, the National Rifle Association has led the charge against any laws that might make this possible. Here’s a look at how the NRA’s pet policies are working against the public good:
Guns are hard to trace.
Gunpowder is hard to trace.
Stolen weapons are hard to trace.
Police couldn’t detect a pattern of suspicious purchases.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...nra/?mobile=nc
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Guns are easy to trace to the original buyer if the serial numbers are intact...as they all have serial numbers...when they are sold. Once the original buyer is traced down they will have to provide an explanation as to what happened to their gun. Even if someone has attempted to get rid of serial numbers...just because you can no longer read the serial numbers with the naked eye...they still can sometimes be recovered.