PHILADELPHIA — They look like delis or hardware stores — a corner shop decorated with stuffed Easter bunnies, a nondescript brick building in the shadow of Interstate 95, a storefront so picturesque it was featured in the new M. Night Shyamalan movie. But they are in fact a dozen or so federally licensed firearms dealers operating in Philadelphia, where they have done brisk business in recent years meeting the demand from legal buyers in one of the nation’s most violent cities. They are also a m
A customer waits to enter Delia's Gun Shop in the Torresdale area of Philadelphia, April 27, 2022.
That finding was in line with a new batch of tracing data obtained by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which also found that a small number of retailers in Georgia, Indiana, Florida and Michigan were responsible for a high proportion of so-called crime guns traced by law enforcement, according to a letter the committee sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday.
Twenty years ago, the gun lobby pushed an amendment through Congress preventing the ATF from distributing trace data beyond law enforcement agencies. That means even basic numbers are hard to come by. When Maloney’s staff requested granular information about dealers with high numbers of crime gun sales, the ATF refused to identify retailers by name — giving each an anonymized numeric label.
“I have said for years that most crime guns come from a small number of stores,” said Shapiro, a Democrat who is running for governor. “We need to do more as a state to make it harder for gun sales to lead to gun violence.” To that end, the Biden administration has proposed a 13% increase to the bureau’s budget, to pay for 140 new agents and 160 new investigators to inspect gun dealers.
The committee found that three dealers sold significantly more crime guns than the others as a percentage of their average monthly gun sales. The situation in Pennsylvania was somewhat different, according to the Brady analysis. Most of the crime guns recovered in Philadelphia, and to a lesser extent Pittsburgh, were sourced from stores inside the state. New York and other cities, by contrast, are often inundated with out-of-state guns.
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