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Houston's Stolen Guns

Posted on the 17 September 2012 by Mikeb302000
The Houston Chronicle reports
Cabdrivers Mohammed Elsayed and Blaise Nwokenaka, shot dead by the last passengers of their lives, were killed with a .380-caliber Cobra pistol - a gun stolen just 20 days earlier.
Nineteen-year-old Shanetria Grogan was slain by her ex-boyfriend, shot in the head with a .380-caliber Jimenez Arms semi-automatic pistol, also stolen. And 23-year-old Leroy Pierson, killed in a drug deal gone bad, suffered a fatal wound from a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol, yet one more ripped-off weapon.
At least 32,000 guns, some 4,000 every year, have been stolen from Houston-area homes, cars, pawn shops and even gun dealers since 2005, with only 7 percent of them ever recovered, a Houston Chronicle analysis shows.
And this is only Houston, and what we know about. Can you imagine the extent of the problem nation-wide?
The solution is obvious.   Safe storage laws plus a reporting of stolen guns requirement would take care of the rest.
This wouldn't be a 100% solution, nothing is, but it would go a long way towards improving things.
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