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Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
U.S. Gun Shops 'Lost' More Than 30,000 Firearms Last Year
July 5th, 2008
Gun dealers "lost" an average of at least 82 firearms every day last year, totaling more than 30,000 firearms unaccounted for in gun dealers' inventory in fiscal year 2007, according to a Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence analysis of new data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released this month. Firearms that "disappear" from gun shops with no record of sale are frequently trafficked by gun traffickers and prized by criminals because the guns are virtually untraceable. Corrupt gun dealers also attempt to disguise illegal off the book sales by claiming that the firearms were lost or stolen. "Communities across our...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-07-05)
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