Public Safety committee  Sure. I've spoken to weapons enforcement officers, and they highlight the issue with break and enters of legitimate gun owners who are targeted by organized crime for theft of their weapons to be turned into crime guns on the black market.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for having me, sir. I'll try to cut right to the point. As the chair has just indicated, I started out as an author. I was a journalist for many years, which culminated in a book about gun culture and violence from a hip-hop perspective, titled Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent.