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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHiding the Numbers on Gun Madness
from Consortium News:
Hiding the Numbers on Gun Madness
June 29, 2013
Between the Rights false history of the Second Amendment and the NRAs lobbying clout, the American scandal of uncontrolled firearms and their use in mass slayings continues unabated. The gun madness has even prevented law enforcement from quantifying the crisis, as Michael Winship reports.
By Michael Winship
Back in January, a month after the Newtown school slayings and just a few days before his second inauguration, Barack Obama announced he would put everything Ive got into the fight against gun violence.
Part of his effort and an end run around a Congress reluctant to make any move that might rile the National Rifle Association was a group of 23 executive actions that, according to The New York Times, he initiated on his own authority to bolster enforcement of existing laws, improve the nations database used for background checks and otherwise make it harder for criminals and people with mental illness to get guns.
Among the actions, the President ordered the Justice Departments beleaguered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to deliver an annual report on lost and stolen firearms in the United States. The first, covering the year 2012, was issued last week but promptly buried under a flurry of other news.
The report combines data from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and information obtained by the ATF from gun dealers, known as Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs). It makes for fascinating, disturbing reading:
In 2012, NCIC received reports reflecting 190,342 lost and stolen firearms nationwide. Of those 190,342 lost and stolen firearms reported, 16,667 (9% of the total reported) were the result of thefts/losses from FFLs. Of the 16,667 firearms reported as lost or stolen from a FFL, a total of 10,915 firearms were reported as lost. The remaining 5,762 were reported as stolen..........................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/29/hiding-the-numbers-on-gun-madness/
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Hiding the Numbers on Gun Madness (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2013
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)2. That's an eye-opening article - A 'must read'!
But it made my head hurt when I read the comments on the article by idiot gun huggers.