Easy access to guns helped me commit murder. I’ve changed, but the loopholes remain

[Oneka]

2. Disengenuous or uninformed? I can't tell.

This is a phenomenon known as straw purchasing, a dangerous loophole that has remained open for decades. I should know, my friends and I had gotten guns the same way in the mid-nineties.

The phenomenon known as straw purchasing is not a loophole, it is a criminal act, in all 50 states. There is a tiny difference.

And yet, illegal private-party gun sales account for as much as 40% of gun purchases in the US. Why do we refuse to actually address such a patently—and demonstratively—dangerous problem in American society?

So the dubious 40% statistic from a, 20 plus year old study, has a new feature?
Now it has become 40% illegal private sales?
Can i seriously take anything that this writer spews as truth?

I think not.