The Trace Notes Role Of Stolen Guns In Chicago Violence

By Tom Knighton

The Trace is kind of like the anti-Bearing Arms. While we support the Second Amendment and defend it, The Trace does the exact opposite. It’s blatantly biased which I can at least respect. Unlike the mainstream media, we know where it’s coming from, and it’s not trying to pretend to be neutral.

But it gets a lot wrong.

Today, The Trace ran a report that talked about stolen guns in Chicago and how that’s supposedly fueling the wave of violence the city is experiencing.

Our analysis is based on hundreds of thousands of gun theft records collected by The Trace, NBC 5 Chicago and a dozen other local NBC TV stations. The analysis also drew on more than five million lost, stolen, and recovered reports lodged with the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC, a federal database used to track missing property (a copy of which was first obtained by USA Today through a public records request). We compared those datasets with information on guns seized by the Chicago Police Department. By connecting serial numbers and other distinguishing markings, we determined that Chicago police were picking up about 480 stolen guns each year — a <a target="_blank" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/cpd-boasts-significant-reduction-in-gun-violence-in-2017/" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms