US EditionGroup's report highlights how guns in the US get from legitimate stores to crime scenes
Over 250 guns bought at Southern stores were traced to northern crimes, with traffickers exploiting licensed sellers, Everytown for Gun Safety found over a three-year period.
- On Tuesday, Everytown for Gun Safety released a report tracing more than 250 guns from Southern stores to Northern crimes, illuminating trafficking along the Interstate 95 corridor.
- Straw purchasers buy weapons legally from Academy Sports retailers and resell them on the black market; Academy paid a $2.5 million settlement in 2023 but faces no accusations of wrongdoing.
- Court documents reveal four people bought 119 guns from Atlanta-area Academy Sports stores in 2020 for Philadelphia markets, while another buyer transported more than 100 firearms from Arkansas to New York.
- Marianna Mitchem, a senior industry consultant at Everytown and former ATF official, said stores should refuse sales when they suspect illegal intent, citing red flags like duplicate purchases.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives data identifies three primary trafficking routes since 2017, with less than 30% of trafficked guns recovered outside the state of initial purchase.
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How do guns get from legitimate stores to crime scenes? A report sheds light on straw purchases
Many of the guns noted in the report traveled from places such as South Carolina and Georgia along the I-95 corridor. Other common paths are the Mississippi River and the southwest pipeline from Arizona and Nevada to California.
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A shooting in Boston. A carjacking in Washington, D.C. A robbery in New York. All were carried out with guns that were among hundreds bought in the South and trafficked north to cities with some of the nation’s strictest firearms…
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Group's report highlights how guns in the US get from legitimate stores to crime scenes
The group Everytown for Gun Safety used court records to trace more than 250 guns bought at nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors chain stores that had been trafficked over three years in a handful of federal straw purchasing prosecutions.
Group's report highlights how guns in the U.S. get from legitimate stores to crime scenes
The group Everytown for Gun Safety used court records to trace more than 250 guns bought at nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors chain stores that had been trafficked over three years in a handful of federal straw purchasing…
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