Pawn shops aren't selling to any felons, as they are required to run background checks as well as having valid state ID shown and photographed by the seller, and thats IF the pawn shop has a license to sell firearms, as not all do. Any pawn shop selling guns to people without a license and proper background checks would immediately be raided by the ATF. The vast majority of guns being used on the street are guns that are bought legally and then have their serial number filed off and are sold illegally person to person.
I think you misunderstood. They're not selling to the felons. And that's not what RaxxScholar said, either.
A felon and his girlfriend go into a pawn shop. The girlfriend has a clean record. They're buying a gun ostensibly for her. He's there to, "help her pick one out." No one runs a background check on the felon because he's not buying the gun.
Everyone involved wasn't born yesterday, and knows the gun isn't actually for her. But it doesn't matter. Pawn shop owner is selling to a legal buyer and has no reason to run a background check on the felon and know for sure he's a felon because the felon isn't the one buying the gun.
It's shady as fuck, but perfectly legal unless you somehow know the gun isn't for the girlfriend. It happens all the time.
But it's also not every single pawn shop out there. I know a guy who runs one and I've seen him kick a dude out for cracking a tasteless joke. It was clearly a joke, but you can't take a chance selling to a dude who just said he was going to shoot his dumbass son for wrecking his truck.
Anyhow, if Cyraxx cleaned himself up, had money, left the attic and went to the right pawn shop, and kept his mouth shut, he could get his malformed hands on a firearm.
He's not going to do any of those things though. If he left the house (lol) he'd roll up somewhere with like $15, drooling and spewing spittle ranting about ice bullets, how good he is at Fortnite, and being vullied for seven years.