[UA] My Current Character: Matthew Laronson

[Timothy Toner]

>I have to say, though... NYC street gangs would have a much easier time
buying guns off of a gun
>runner from Virginia than one from Russia... unless by "automatics" you
meant assault rifles or
>submachineguns, which are probably cheaper and easier to buy
"ready-to-rock" in a place like
>Russia.  Still, it would probably be less risky to just buy them from an
American who had done the
>full-auto modifications on his own... God knows the gun laws in this
country are lax enough that we
>don't have to buy them from Russia...

The primary advantage is that they're untraceable, which makes them perfect
as a 'throwaway'.  You can learn a lot about a gun just by where it's
manufactured, and even if it was stolen from a homeowner in Pocatello, ID,
the feds are damn good at making those causal links that mean brown trousers
time for most of organized crime.  There's a great scene in one of the first
issues of Hitman, where, after a blazing gun battle, the character has to
pick up every spent shell casing, because even _that_ will tell the feds way
too much information about who he is.  He basically can't directly touch the
round in any way (even when loading!!!) if he bought it 'special,' because
the feds would like nothing more than to bring down an ammo manufacturer
that makes their jobs more difficult, and people like that with the
wherewithal to manufacture ammo don't appreciate visits from the ATF at 3
am.

Besides, it's precisely the point.  Most guns on the street are crap, handed
down through several gun owners, most of which don't know how to clean the
weapon.  It's in bad shape.  Now imagine NYC when the streets get flooded
with cheap military-quality hardware.  Eep!  Every banger tries a little
John Woo action, just fer shits and grins.


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