Tracking the source of guns used in local crimes

[SecularMotion]

One winter afternoon in 2010, the lives of Keairrah Johnson, 23, and a companion were snuffed out by gunfire from a passing vehicle in the 4200 block of King Drive. More than two years later, the murders remain unsolved.

About the only thing police are certain of is that the killer’s weapon most likely originated within Missouri, as did more than two-thirds of the 2,957 firearms recovered and traced last year in the state, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Its data show that 1,929 of those firearms were recovered in St. Louis, and 717 in Kansas City.

Not that those weapons were manufactured in Missouri.

Last year, 1.7 million handguns were imported into the U.S., almost one-third of them from Austria, followed by Brazil, Germany, Croatia and Italy, according to the ATF. Missouri’s gun dealers can sell such weapons with relative ease because the state requires no background check for every gun bought, beyond the federal felony check. That’s one reason the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence regards Missouri as having “weak gun laws that help feed the illegal gun market.”

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/26919/tracing_the_guns_090712

[SecularMotion]

2. Hi stalker

[bongbong]

3. Pesky facts

Toxic to the Delicate Flowers in the DU Gun Lobby.

[Eleanors38]

4. Is the brady storefront still gop? Nt

[Reasonable_Argument]

5. Interesting

They could always allow the law abiding citizens to arm themselves to have a fighting chance against the criminals.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Joining the ranks...

...of the media that lie, we have Robert Joiner.

FFLs in Missouri, like 34 other states in the US, perform a standard NICS check.



Categories for persons prohibited from receiving a firearm:
-A person who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or any state offense classified by the state as a misdemeanor and is punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than two years.
-Persons who are fugitives of justice—for example, the subject of an active felony or misdemeanor warrant.
-An unlawful user and/or an addict of any controlled substance; for example, a person convicted for the use or possession of a controlled substance within the past year; or a person with multiple arrests for the use or possession of a controlled substance within the past five years with the most recent arrest occurring within the past year; or a person found through a drug test to use a controlled substance unlawfully, provided the test was administered within the past year.
-A person adjudicated mental defective or involuntarily committed to a mental institution or incompetent to handle own affairs, including dispositions to criminal charges of found not guilty by reason of insanity or found incompetent to stand trial.
-A person who, being an alien, is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.
-A person who, being an alien except as provided in subsection (y) (2), has been admitted to the United States under a non-immigrant visa.
-A person dishonorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces.
-A person who has renounced his/her United States citizenship.
-The subject of a protective order issued after a hearing in which the respondent had notice that restrains them from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of such partner. This does not include ex parte orders.
-A person convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime which includes the use or attempted use of physical force or threatened use of a deadly weapon and the defendant was the spouse, former spouse, parent, guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited in the past with the victim as a spouse, parent, guardian or similar situation to a spouse, parent or guardian of the victim.
-A person who is under indictment or information for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.

link: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/general-information/fact-sheet

Also, those 130 firearms traced to Chicago, I thought the Bradys like Chicago.

[ManiacJoe]

7. If you want to reduce the number of illegal straw purchasers,

you need to start prosecuting them on a regular and frequent basis.

[Atypical Liberal]

8. I don't understand what I am supposed to take away from this article

Yes, criminals gain access to guns. So?