Firing Back: Pakistani Gun Markets Revealed
While liberal politicians and the mainstream media report about getting guns off the streets, in war torn countries such as Pakistan, it isn’t a matter of getting the guns off the streets – it is closing down the gun bazaars and stopping the production of illegal firearms. China might be a nation that makes counterfeit PlayStation 3s and Rolexes, but in the Pakistan border region with Afghanistan near perfect replicas of major firearms are mass produced BY HAND!
CNN.com offers a rare inside look at these markets, which was captured on video by VSB.TV from Brooklyn, New York in 2006. This was possibly the last time that western journalists were freely allowed in this region.
The warning is that criminals and warlords will always produce guns. You can close gun show loopholes, lock up the straw buyers, but keeping guns out of the hands of criminals is as impossible as it is to keep the guns out of the hands of rebels and insurgents. That’s something to think about the next time the media reports on a buyback that took a dozen guns off the streets.
