• @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    16 months ago

    Police are able to buy modern pistols in California, so there’s a thriving straw purchase market in California of police officers buying guns just to sell them at insane markups.

    • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      16 months ago

      Seems like this would just succeed in putting money in the hands of the wrong people, no matter how you shake it.

      That, on top of poor people just won’t be able to defend themselves when things inevitably become worse.