• Congress ensures tracing gun sales isn't easy
    Mayor Bob O'Connor recently joined other mayors in a national campaign aimed at reducing gun violence.

    "There are too many illegal guns, not just in our city, but throughout the country," he said. "This is a national problem and must be addressed at a national level."

    But that's not easy when the federal agency that monitors gun trafficking can't share all it knows because of restrictions approved by Congress that are intended, in part, to shield gun dealers from lawsuits. Read more.

  • Firearms Trafficking 101 Or Where Do Crime Guns Come From?
    On November 21, 1994, Bennie Lee Lawson, who had previously been interviewed by DC Police in relation to a triple homicide, entered Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Washington, DC and asked where the homicide squad was located. By mistake, he ended up in the offices of the cold case squad, a unit comprised of DC Police and FBI agents, which evaluated and reopened unsolved homicide cases. Read more.

  • Bill Jenkins to Donna-Dees-Thomases
    Here is a letter written by Bill Jenkins to Donna-Dees-Thomases, founder of the Million Mom March. The original Million Mom March took place in Washington, DC on Mother's Day 2000, and brought hundreds of thousands of Moms and their children and supporters to our nation's Capitol to protest the lack of Congressional action concerning the problem of gun violence.

    Bill Jenkins grew up in a family of hunters and gun owners. But a gun incident altered his life irrevocably, and his insight into the gun control debate extensively. His letter is a concise summary of the status of our issue, straight from the heart of someone who knows too well what our work is really about.

  • Congress Hampers Efforts to Stop Gun Trafficking
    Once again Congress has approved legislation that prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) from providing crime gun tracing data to law enforcement agencies and policy-making organizations like CT Against Gun Violence.

  • A Gun Trafficking Example
    Law enforcement has been doing an increasingly efficient job of arresting and prosecuting felons and other disqualified users for criminal possession of guns. The question that remains unanswered is "Where did they get the gun?" Read more

  • The Illegal Gun Market: Something's Happening Here

 

 
 
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