NSSF Issues Statement On Chicago Trace Report

By Tom Knighton

The National Shooting Sports Foundation issued a statement earlier this week regarding Chicago’s gun trace report. It seems the gun rights organization takes particular exception to the study, and they have a strong point. After all, the study apparently makes assumptions about gun purchases, rather than possessing hard facts.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today issued the following statement.

Gun Trace Report 2017 issued at the direction of the Chicago Mayor’s Office outlines a comprehensive public safety strategy, certain elements of which the firearms industry would endorse including increasing the number of police officers on the street and tough sentences for criminals who use guns. The bulk of the report, however, starts from a purposely misleading premise and represents what we have heard before as a political narrative from the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

As to the premise, a tracing request is simply a law enforcement tool. As the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ATF has repeatedly stated, “The appearance of [a licensed dealer] or a first unlicensed purchaser of record in association with a crime gun or in association with multiple crime …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms