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**JakilSong** · 08-31-2012, 01:17 AM

It is the typical 'price them underground' problem, why 1 in 4 guns (or is it 1in 5) on the street are registered, why having the price so high makes them so cheap to the gutter scum.
You can buy a scratched up revolver on the streets of the capital for RD10,000, no collectors item but it is still a nightmare in the wrong hands. Biggest issue with these very cheap revolvers are they are probably responsible for killing someone and so it might be a bit hairy being caught with it. I've heard of stories about losers being fitted up with pistols by PN, selling them, or giving them to some low life to sell at street level, and then before the seller gets out of the street they are picked up by another PN and forensics (I know, forensics in DR

, apparently they do have them) match up the link and bobs your uncle, PN are in the clear, some innocent goes down for murder. I'd hate to think of the fate of an expat with a murder weapon in their hands.

I understand many taxi drivers get their guns directly from PN, clean and for less than RD45,000, but their seems to be an unspoken agreement with them due to the nature of their job and they are always under threat after dark. At worst they'd get it confiscated, at best a small propina. Infact for the most part I reckon on the street an expat would only get it confiscated with a hefty on the spot fine. But no one ever knows what the weapon has been through what it can link you to and so a very dangerous game to play for the sakes of having what seems to be nothing more than a status symbol.
I say status symbol as I can't remember hearing of the times expats have shot intruders or muggers (maybe donP has some snippets of such cases?),so it makes me wonder just how useful they are in reality, or we would hear more stories of them being used by expats.
But if you've got the cash and want one, the why not, it can't do any harm going through legal channels.

I think it is a pain for Americans mainly, being able and probably having guns for years, it is natural, a miss. But for most Europeans there seems little want or need as we never had them, and for me, I'm frightened of them, I don't even like holding one.

08-31-2012, 01:17 AM	#26
JakilSong Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	It is the typical 'price them underground' problem, why 1 in 4 guns (or is it 1in 5) on the street are registered, why having the price so high makes them so cheap to the gutter scum. You can buy a scratched up revolver on the streets of the capital for RD10,000, no collectors item but it is still a nightmare in the wrong hands. Biggest issue with these very cheap revolvers are they are probably responsible for killing someone and so it might be a bit hairy being caught with it. I've heard of stories about losers being fitted up with pistols by PN, selling them, or giving them to some low life to sell at street level, and then before the seller gets out of the street they are picked up by another PN and forensics (I know, forensics in DR, apparently they do have them) match up the link and bobs your uncle, PN are in the clear, some innocent goes down for murder. I'd hate to think of the fate of an expat with a murder weapon in their hands. I understand many taxi drivers get their guns directly from PN, clean and for less than RD45,000, but their seems to be an unspoken agreement with them due to the nature of their job and they are always under threat after dark. At worst they'd get it confiscated, at best a small propina. Infact for the most part I reckon on the street an expat would only get it confiscated with a hefty on the spot fine. But no one ever knows what the weapon has been through what it can link you to and so a very dangerous game to play for the sakes of having what seems to be nothing more than a status symbol. I say status symbol as I can't remember hearing of the times expats have shot intruders or muggers (maybe donP has some snippets of such cases?),so it makes me wonder just how useful they are in reality, or we would hear more stories of them being used by expats. But if you've got the cash and want one, the why not, it can't do any harm going through legal channels. I think it is a pain for Americans mainly, being able and probably having guns for years, it is natural, a miss. But for most Europeans there seems little want or need as we never had them, and for me, I'm frightened of them, I don't even like holding one.
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