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A 2016 survey of federal and state prison inmates by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that among prisoners who possessed a gun during their offense, 10.1% obtained the gun through a retail source (7.5% gun shop/store, 1.6% pawn shop, 0.8% gun show, and 0.4% from a flea market); 25.3% obtained the gun from an individual (family member ...
3. Traced Guns. Over 4 million detail records from all traces since inception. [20] This is a registration record which includes the personal information of the first retail purchaser, along with the identity of the selling dealer. 4. Out of Business Records. Data is manually collected from paper out of business records (or input from computer ...
[130] [131] [132] The Columbine shooters had obtained the guns via a straw purchase through private sellers at gun shows. [133] [134] Weeks after the shooting, United States Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed introduced a bill to require background checks for sales at gun shows in federal law. It was passed in the Senate, but did not pass ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A rule requiring gun dealers to obtain federal licenses and conduct background checks regardless of where they sell guns has been finalized and will soon go into effect, the ...
ATF Form 4473, October 2016 revision. A Firearms Transaction Record, or ATF Form 4473, is a seven-page form prescribed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) required in the United States of America to be completed when a person proposes to purchase a firearm from a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder, such as a gun dealer.
A massive leak of Mexican military intelligence has exposed for the first time in two decades U.S. gun shops and smugglers tied to 78,000 firearms recovered south of the border – and which types ...
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was amended in 1993 by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act which introduced a background check requirement of prospective gun purchasers by licensed sellers, and created a list of categories of individuals to whom the sale of firearms is prohibited: [18] It would also be amended again in 1994 by the Violence ...
At the annual conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, two Republican lawmakers described how government officials fail to meet transparency requirements.