The number of suspected 'ghost guns' traced and recovered by the U.S. government more than doubled in 2021 from the year before, a new federal report finds.
"It is my sincere hope that the publication of this unprecedented collection of data will help others to study firearms violence and will further ATF's mission of protecting American communities from violent crime," ATF Director Steve Dettelbach said in aGhost gun owners buy and assemble their firearms piece by piece. The weapons don't have serial numbers, so law enforcement cannot trace them.ghost guns between 2017 and 2021.
The report also reveals that 54% of guns recovered from crime scenes in 2021 had been purchased within the previous three years, up from 42% in 2019, an overall increase of 28% in the share of guns traced with such purchasing histories. Between 2019 and 2021, there was also a 64% increase in guns that were recovered at crime scenes within one year of purchase.
Shorter turnaround between the time a gun is purchased and the time it is recovered at a crime scene can be an indicator of illegal firearm trafficking, per the report.
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