Originally Posted by
small_caliber
I am unsure why anyone has a firearms license if it isn't to legally purchase a firearms.
Yes things happen in people's lives, and a huge number of the people that go through those problems don't sell firearms to criminals, but if some do and they remove the serial numbers from those firearms they sell before they sell them, when will the police discover they are selling firearms to criminals? A register won't stop that.
How many of the firearms recovered from criminals by police have serial numbers?
If they have had the serial number removed, how are they going to trace them to anyone?
I would say the police have recovered, in the last year, more firearms from criminals than the ones you mentioned sold to the criminals and given the number of guns recovered if they were coming from licensed firearms owners then there would clearly be a marked increase in prosecutions, yet we don't see many prosecuted for supplying the criminals with firearms, why is that?