Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
Not avoiding anything.

So, you accept that someone has to make guns used in violent crimes, and someone has to sell them.

Suppose for a minute, for simplicities sake, that Smith and Wesson makes all things you can pull a trigger on

The guy running S&W is a good businessman and runs a pretty tight ship, so he makes 500k guns a year, and sells 500k a year. He's always very close on his numbers. Lets assume that 5000 of these make their way into the black market every year.

So what if one year he made 500k guns and people didnt buy any, and he only sold 300k? He's gonna make less guns next year correct?

So, the following year, S&W only makes 300k guns. Since the supply has changed here, do you think more or less guns will make it to the black market?
You are either assuming that he is selling to the black market, or you are not - but you are not making that clear.

No smart business owner would sell weapons on the black market, and risk losing his license and going to prison, so the answer would be - the same amount, the 5000 that you stated. Supply and demand for the black market would not change, as those individuals are not purchasing firearms from the owner. You cannot say that the legal production and consumption of goods regulates the black market - they do not share the same supply and demand. That's not how economics works.