A key component of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (ATF) enforcement mission is the tracing of firearms on behalf of thousands of Federal, State, local and foreign law enforcement agencies. Firearms trace data is critically important information developed by ATF. ATF has prepared the following state-by-state reports utilizing trace data which is intended to provide the public with insight into firearms recoveries.
Perhaps an alternate title would be "BATFU Does PowerPoint."
One thing that strikes is that of all guns recovered during the report period, the "National Average Time-to-Crime" is 10.17 YEARS! That's quite some flow for the "pipeline, " wouldn't you agree?
But the thing that caught my immediate attention was the "Firearm Types" graphic presented for each state:
Where are all the "assault weapons" they're tracing? I mean, these are the bogeyman guns we're always hearing about from the Bradys and their "authorized journalist" heralds...
Aside from a very rare machine gun trace, all the other classifications I see make no distinction...
Hey, wait a minute...you don't think the antis might be all about manipulating semantics, that is, lying, do you...?
[Via Of Arms and the Law]
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Scary looking rifle is simply a subset of rifle. Of course after all the publicity, no self-respecting hoodlum would use a lever gun in .32 Special if he can get an AK-47 even tho they are balisticly equivalent.
Just scanning the list I am coming up with less than 7000 firearms total......so we are talking a multi-million dollar agency with thousands of employees, a billion buck inventory of equipment et, et....for 7000 lousy guns?
Abolish the whole thing.
I see where you screwed up David. You read the BATFE report.
Your not supposed to read the report, your supposed to read Brady/VPC press release about the report.
You probably even read the footnotes and apendix on those BATFE reports too (when the Gov includes them). Thats even worse! Thats where the Gov includes those little statements like... this is not a random sample and therefore does not scientifically indicate real world crime gun distribution in the US.
If you would just stick to reading the Brady/VPC press releases you would KNOW that the report represents real world crime gun distribution.
Re: anonymous
The slide presented is for one state only - there is a similar slide for each state. For example, there are 21,000+ guns in California.
Why they don't have a report for all 50 states combined is beyond me.
Derringers? Derringers?
Why, yes.
I myself rather enjoy cranking up the Victrola and polishing my derringer.
Anon, they do--click on the title link. I just chose one representative slide out of the bunch.
A match, a knife, a stone, a stick; a car, a rope, a spike, a brick,
With these, crimes happen every day; but only guns we take away.
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao; all confiscated guns somehow.
Thus suppressed, their people fled or joined 100 million dead. ANON
If anyone can attribute this, I'd love to give credit.
AR-15 is a "machine gun'?
Give me a break.
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