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Rep. Cherelle Parker, D-Philadelphia, said Graterford state prison inmates told her last week that reporting of lost and stolen guns would reduce violent crime.
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So now Philly is getting legal advice from criminals... lovely.
Maybe I am missing something in her argument. The criminal would still have the gun and still has the ability to kill people. So how is it going to reduce violent crime? That would only work if a cop ran the serial number of a criminal's gun and to do that the cop would need a reason to perform a search since the gun would undoubtedly be concealed.
BUT... if a person is caught carrying a stolen gun chances are they are not legally allowed to own one and they do not poses a LTCF. So they can already be arrested and have their gun confiscated. The fact that it is stolen is irrelevant in terms of arrests, it merely adds on to the list of charges.