NYPD Sgt talkes sence

[saddler]

The Americans do have a passion for firearms, that will be a hard task to control them.....just so many licensed firearms out there !

Licenced??

Where is this then? You still talking about the US?

No licence needed for most guns in the USA - though there are some that need special permission & a $5/$200 Tax Stamp

And WHY is there a need to control "them" - the guns used by the criminals are the ones that are causing the problems; so is "them" ALL US shooters, or just the criminals, or ALL the guns, or just the criminal misuses of them?

How much differences have the UK gun bans made?
UK streets now safer?

[Dahonis]

I mean recorded sales, i.e someone knows that you have one.

[saddler]

I mean recorded sales, i.e someone knows that you have one.

Er, again

Recorded? In what form?

There is NO gun registry in the USA...apart from the previously mentioned FFA guns

Sales from a shop require a background check...face to face private sales - turn up with the money & take the gun away. No paperwork, unless you want a receipt for your records...

[ordnance]

How much differences have the UK gun bans made?
UK streets now safer

I Don't think the gun ban made the streets in the uk safer because the firearms were taken of law abiding citizens. But the fact that there are not as many firearms floating about as there are in America make the streets safer.

[Sim G]

Our streets safer? No, they are not. Figures from the UN put the UK at the top of the list of violent crimes per 100 thousand of population. Higher than South Africa or the US.

[Dahonis]

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) does keep track of guns manufactured and sold by established companies for non-military sales, i.e general public, It even knows how many are legally imported and exported each year.

That would appear just general sales figures, I'm even more shocked at what you say Saddler. That's just plain mad.

[Chuck]

Sales from a shop require a background check...face to face private sales - turn up with the money & take the gun away. No paperwork, unless you want a receipt for your records...

But many will want to see ID of some sort if you are NOT known to them...rightly or wrongly.