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4 years agodiscuss

Well the comment was in response to a claim that criminals get guns through burglary. Being a diligent person, I asked for a citation because it seemed like someone was making a claim out of their ass. I was right: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/g...

sha256sum

4 years agodiscuss

Wow, broad question. I know for pharma it's skimmed off the supply chain. But I have a hard time believing all black market guns, or even the majority, are stolen from residences. I imagine this is a case for low-level criminals, sometimes, but again some proof would clear it up.

sha256sum

4 years agodiscuss

> Criminals get guns through burgling and robbery.

Cool do you have any evidence or a citation to back up the claim. I’m surprised, seems more likely they would buy off the black market.

Edit: Instead of downvoting, provide the source.

Edit2: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/g...

> An expert on crime gun patterns, ATF agent Jay Wachtel says that most guns used in crimes are not stolen out of private gun owners' homes and cars. "Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes," Wachtel said. Because when they want guns they want them immediately the wait is usually too long for a weapon to be stolen and find its way to a criminal.

sha256sum

4 years agodiscuss

>now route my self-hosted email through SMTP2Go thanks to a tip from another commenter here

I think you're referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180604

> I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I'm able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I've corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.

Been interested in doing the same since reading it and meant to bookmark for later!

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