| − | The '''black market''' is a market run apart from the regular [[economy]]. The black market includes transactions of illegal goods or services such as drugs, prostitution, selling stolen goods, or otherwise legal goods where the parties are trying to avoid taxation, such as smuggled cigarettes. Generally, an increase in regulations and/or a decrease in the [[rule of law]] leads to an increase in black market activity. | + | The '''black market''' is a market run apart from the regular [[economy]]. The black market includes transactions of illegal goods or services such as drugs, prostitution, selling stolen goods, or otherwise legal goods where the parties are trying to avoid [[tax]]ation, such as smuggled cigarettes. Generally, an increase in regulations and/or a decrease in the [[rule of law]] leads to an increase in black market activity. |
| | + | According to interviews with [[criminal]]s in jail and ex-convicts, criminals almost exclusively purchase their illegal [[firearm]]s on the black market or they steal them from law-abiding citizens often after their names, addresses and phone numbers have been published by unscrupulous liberal journalists via [[Freedom of Information Act]] requests such as happened in New York City in 2013. |