I completely agree, though it doesn’t make me feel any better. The English translation of “straw purchase” is “gun in the hands of someone who isn’t supposed to have one.”
Agreed again, though I’m not entirely reassured by either of those numbers. 18,000 lost or stolen firearms is still a lot of firearms unaccounted for when it isn’t next to the unbelievably huge number 80,000,000. I thought
at first I had misread the statistic for 2016 total firearm sales when I looked it up.
