Gun control advocates believe gun tracing can help stop crime. The facts say otherwise

Gun control advocates believe that gun tracing schemes can help stop crime, but the facts sharply undercut this estimation. Great @TheTomKnighton piece for BASEDPolitics:https://t.co/BQDHSecMP3

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) April 18, 2022

BASEDPolitics’ Tom Knighton writes, “A 2019 survey by the U.S. Department of Justice found that 43% of all criminals bought their guns on the black market. Another 6% acquired them through theft, and only 11% purchased their firearm through lawful means such as a gun store or gun show.

Another 12% used a gun brought to the crime scene by another party. Other guns were the result of straw buys—someone buying a gun for a prohibited person—or the gun was given to them by a friend or relative.

In other words, gun tracing would only be directly beneficial in just 11% of these cases, at most. Also interestingly, for some reason, “building a ‘ghost gun’” didn’t seem to make the list at all. Whether that’s an issue of the questions ask it simply didn’t happen that much is unknown.”

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