proves corruption.

Simple supply and demand.

Change to "shall-issue" instead of "may-issue" and the opportunity for corruption goes way down.

I wonder how much Trump paid for his license.

As for guns getting into the hands of people with criminal records, that's maybe a different problem. The gun purchase background check is federal, not state or municipal.

I'm willing to bet that under a shall issue system a rich white guy has an easier time getting a gun permit than a poor black guy, yet many liberals will defend themselves.

Plus the 450.00 fee (handgun permit). I don't live in NYC, but I've got money, I could pay it. I guess if you are not well off, you don't deserve some rights according to those in government.

It's about $125 in MI, for a five-year concealed carry permit, on top of about $100 for mandatory training. That's still a bunch of money, bot nothing approaching the $6000-10000 bribes the article mentions.

Now, the "shall issue" includes 17 pages (I again kid you not) of circumstances that result in a "no", including any ties (even family or communal ones) to terrorism or crime, history of drug or alcohol abuse, any mental health adjudication, basically any crime other than a parking ticket, etc. (And if they say no you get your 5 rupees back.) And it takes about a year, though that's also true for just about any permit (I just got my export license for my dog, and it took 36 stamps and 12 signatures).

Yes, the criminals still have guns, though they don't seem to use them all that much. The overall homicide rate is 1.2 (NYC's is 5.5, and this is probably the safest NYC has ever been), and gun homicides are about 5% of that (as compared to 50% in NYC). My point is it's not particularly legally more difficult to get a gun in Mumbai than it is in NYC (and, just like NYC, Mumbai is surrounded by jurisdictions where it's much easier, legally or illegally, to get one). There really is a cultural difference here; when a police tactical squad fired 200 rounds in a shootout with D-company (kind of Mumbai's version of Murder Inc.) people were shocked and the entire police department was reorganized. (Similarly, the state government recently fell over the fact that 106 people had died in police custody over the course of 15 years; just in 2012 4039 people died in the US in police custody, and Maharashtra's population is 125 million.)

The guy who claims he gets out of the car, then reaches for his belt area to lift his shirt to show he doesn't have a weapon

That f@cker would have been dead by now if that story were even 1/10th true

When it comes to Cannabis and other drugs they turn the camera and microphone on in your phone. Facebook also does this and mines your texts and phone book. They know who you stood next to and had a conversation with. That person will be suggested as a friend within hours even though they are nowhere in your phone. Maybe the police should have stood up for privacy rights when we had the chance.

If any of the guns he passed were involved in a homicide he should spend life in prison.