ISRA Thursday Bulletin For November 2, 2017

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Last weekend, newspapers in Illinois were filled with articles about the Chicago gun trace report. As in the past a few years, Chicago area gun dealers were singled out because they had a high proportion of the gun traces. There are a couple of things I would like to point out about gun traces.

First, those stores have never been charged with any wrong doing. Every person who bought a gun at those stores passed the background check and went through the waiting period. Gun stores in Illinois and across the United States are heavily regulated.

Typically, the anti-gunners seem to blame the stores for the gun traces. There are many reasons a gun is traced. It may have been reported missing or been found on a person who should not have had it. The other point is the same gun may be traced more than one time for the same gun. If ten police agencies were involved in an investigation, they may have all traced the same gun.

Therefore, you have ten traces even though it was one gun. Trace data does not tell law enforcement if a gun has been …Read the Rest

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