Is there a black market for guns?

Is there a black market for guns?

There clearly is a black market for guns. It's something that I think we need to do more as a country to figure out where the guns that are used in crimes are coming from and how they get there. One of the frustrations in my job is that it's hard to get good information. Actually the federal government, for the last four years has restricted the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms on releasing information on where guns traced to crimes come from. So it's hard to figure out which dealers are the source of those guns, what the trafficking pattern for those guns are. But our assumption is that it's a fairly quick short period of time that a gun moves from the legal market, a legitimate dealer, to the illegal market. that's usually a sign that there have been straw purchasers, that someone's not doing background checks, that they're quote 'losing' or having a lot of guns quote 'stolen' from their place and those are the guns that end up showing up in gang members hands in communities across the country.