ATF Director Steven Dettelbach wrote that the findings of a new report, covering gun crimes from 2017 to 2021, offer “strategic intelligence” for policy makers, law enforcement and researchers to reduce gun violence.
Along with the huge bump in gun sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a subsequent increase in unintentional shootings by children and gunfire on school grounds,
But those weapons are tough to track, given that they have no serial numbers or other markings for tracing. Different types of 3D printers are seen at ABC Imaging in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1, 2018. These printers are being used to print gun conversion devices, according to gun violence experts. To put this new data into context, from 2012 to 2016, ATF reported the recovery of 814 machine gun conversion devices, the agency told NPR. From 2017 to 2021, however, that number skyrocketed to 5,454 recoveries.
The huge jump in law enforcement agencies recovering these devices is thanks to the ATF’s effort over the past two years to educate local agencies on the identification and reporting of conversion devices, the agency said. “It’s probably also the most likely to be stolen. And it’s also the most likely to wind up on the streets,” Densley said of the Glock pistol.
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