Question about guns that bad guys carry

Bad guys guns

LSP You listed 5 Hi-Points and then said there were no "Saturday night specials". Doesn't compute. I seized the first one of those in the late 80s when they were marked "Stallard Arms".
I have seen, in 40 years of LE, handguns ranging from Stallards, Ravens, Lorcins, Phoenix, RG-10s, LLamas, all the way to Sigs, Berettas, Colts, S&Ws and Mausers. The nicest was an early model Mauser HSC I recovered in a stolen car. It was immaculate. I know they were out there but I never recovered any Glocks from thugs. Criminals are like the rest of the world's population. Some respect their weapons. Most don't.
 
Hi-Points are too large to fit the definition; at least, in my book.

I was a trooper for 30 years; while not all of that was on the road, a good part of it was. I seized a gun or two myself. My point was, the TYPE of guns being seized now have changed. The Lorcins, Davis', RGs, etc. have given way to more quality brands and examples.

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Whatever is available

Here in NYS you cannot walk into a hardware store or pawn shop and buy a handgun. Most guns used in crimes are stolen while some others may have been smuggled in from other states by gunrunners--according to politicians. With anti-gun politicians, it's especially difficult to know if they're telling the truth or merely spouting anti-gun propaganda. The police commissioner says that most guns recovered in NYC crimes had their origins in Virginia. These are mostly quality handguns that any of us would own.

So, criminals use whatever they can get their hand on, including pellet pistols and fakes, on occasion.
 
According to rap songs, they use glocks(not sure if they know it's a brand) AKs, berettas, Uzis, Mack 10s, tech 9s, ARs and desert eagles. Maybe a llama every once in a while.
 
In my 30 years in LE in a fairly large capital city, my observation was that HiPoints show up at crime scenes more than anything else.

And when I was doing street-level drug work, they were the most-often encountered hardware also. usually in '9', but a real status symbol on the street was a FO-TEE. (.40)
 
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