![]() ![]() ![]() The team dug into shops, or single-owner websites hosted on Tor, a dark web browser, using a scaping tool to track vendors anonymously selling firearms, as well as to identity patterns of their operations.Ĭommon threads between the sellers included: vendors deliberately selling hand and long guns the use of bitcoin for payment sellers' shops requesting PO Boxes to ship the product and how sellers delivered the guns. The dark web allows for total anonymity, enabling those who would not be able to purchase a firearm legally get access to weapons. ![]() Sixty-four per cent of the products advertised were handguns, 17 per cent were semi-automatic long guns and fully automatic long guns were 4 per cent. "Instead of exotic or rare firearms, we saw handguns - the kinds of weapons someone in the US could buy from stores or vendors with a license," he added. "What I found most surprising was that most of what we saw wasn't rifles of military-grade weapons," Holt said in a statement. "We know so little about the distribution of firearms sold on the dark web that it's kind of a black hole, similar to illicit pharmaceuticals and narcotics: We know people buy them online, but we don't know to what extent," said Thomas Holt, professor at Michigan State University in the US. The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorisation to access. ![]() The research, published in the journal Deviant Behavior, revealed key insights on a trade that undercuts gun laws in the US, and other countries around the world where regulations are tighter. Firearms are anonymously bought and sold around the world on the dark web, according to scientists who noted that despite debates over gun regulations make headlines, underground operation for weapons has drawn very little attention. ![]()
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