Hello all.
I live in Puerto Rico and we have one of the strongest firearms law within the American judiciary system, over here if you want to buy a gun first you have go thru the process of getting a firearms license for which you have to apply to the state police dept. and local justice dept. they investigate you, go to your neighbors and your co workers and then when they decide that you are worthy you have to take a firearms course and pay up to $400.00 for the paper work and the course and then you can buy a gun. This process can take up to six months and its only for home self defense and sport shooting in a gun range. If you want a CCW after you get your firearms license you have to apply once again through an attorney, they investigate you once again you have pay upwards of $500 or more depending on attorneys fees and you have to appear in front of a judge with three character witnesses you have state your reasons for your application to carry a conceal weapon and he decides if you are worthy of that privilege, because over here is a privilege not a RIGHT, and this new process can take another six months.
Every new gun is registered with the police, theres a background check on every purchase and every bullet purchase has to be registered with the police and every private transfer has to be done in a FFL were they change the registration of the gun to the new owner with the police and they obviously charge you a transfer fee, usually $25.
On internet guns the gun has to arrive to your FFL and they do the background check and register the gun with the police and charge you $125 for that.
Thats the law in Puerto Rico. Thats what we have to live with. Criminality in Puerto Rico is way up but the highest percent of the crimes are committed with illegal guns. No one in their right mind would go thru that process to get a legal gun and then use it in a crime.
We have to control the illegal guns and that way we can start to control crime.