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2 results foundAuthor: Parsons, Chelsea Title: Stolen Guns in America: A State-by-State Analysis Summary: In the early morning hours of July 5, 2017, New York Police Department officer Miosotis Familia was ambushed as she sat in a marked NYPD command truck with her partner while providing additional security to a Bronx neighborhood after Fourth of July festivities. In an attack that police officials described as an assassination, Officer Familia was fatally shot in the head with a gun that had been stolen in Charleston, West Virginia, four years earlier. Less than a month earlier on the other side of the country, a UPS driver in San Francisco shot and killed three co-workers and injured two others using a gun that had been stolen in Utah. The shooter was also armed with a gun that had been stolen in Napa County, California. Stolen guns pose a significant risk to community safety. Whether stolen from a gun store or an individual gun owner's collection, these guns often head straight into the illegal underground gun market, where they are sold, traded, and used to facilitate violent crimes. Gun theft is not a minor problem in the United States. According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during the four-year period from 2012 to 2015, nearly half a billion dollars worth of guns were stolen from individuals nationwide, amounting to an estimated 1.2 million guns. Twenty-two thousand guns were stolen from gun stores during this same period. A gun is stolen in the U.S. every two minutes. This problem does not affect all states equally. The rate and volume of guns stolen from both gun stores and private collections vary widely from state to state. From 2012 through 2015, the average rate of the five states with the highest rates of gun theft from private owners - Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Alabama - was 13 times higher than the average rate of the five states with the lowest rates - Hawaii, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and Massachusetts. Similarly, from 2012 through 2016, the average rate of the five states with the highest rates of guns stolen from gun stores was 18 times higher than the average rate the five states with the lowest rates. Gun owners and dealers have a substantial responsibility to take reasonable measures to protect against theft and help ensure that their guns do not become part of this illegal inventory. This report analyzes data from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to provide state-by-state data on the frequency with which guns are stolen from licensed gun dealers and individual gun owners in communities across the country. It then offers a number of policy solutions to help prevent future gun thefts. States that are in the top 10 for highest number of guns stolen from both gun stores and private owners Details: Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2017. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 31, 2017 at: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2017/07/25052308/StolenGuns-report.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2017/07/25052308/StolenGuns-report.pdf Shelf Number: 146628 Keywords: Gun-Related ViolenceGunsIllegal GunsStolen GunsTheft |
Author: Azrael, Deborah Title: The Stock and Flow of US Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey Summary: We estimate that, as of 2015, there were approximately 270 million guns in the US civilian gun stock, an increase of approximately 70 million guns since the mid 1990's. Over that time, the fraction of the gun stock that is handguns - most often bought for self-protection - has grown (to over 40%), as has the fraction of gun owners who own both handguns and long guns (to over 75%). While the fraction of US adults who report owning guns has declined only modestly, from 25% in 1994 to 22% in 2015, current gun owners are likely to own more guns (the mean number of guns has increased from 4 to 5). Despite the increase in the average number of guns, the median gun owner owns only two guns, while the 8% of all gun owners who own 10 or more guns account for 39% of the gun stock. With respect to firearm transfers, we estimate that approximately 70 million firearms changed hands within the past five years, the large majority of which were purchased, more so in the past two years (86%) than more distally (79% 2-5 years ago; 61% more than 5 years ago). Across all three time periods, the most commonly acquired firearm was a handgun. Guns not only move into, but also out of the hands of US gun owners. Five percent (5%) of gun owners in our sample reported having disposed of a gun within the past 5 years, most often (35%) through a sale to family or friends. Another 2.5% of our sample reported having had a gun stolen within the past 5 years, accounting for an estimated 400,000 guns per year. Details: Boston, MA: Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, 2017. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 29, 2018 at: https://gunculture2point0.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/harvard-gun-study-stock-and-flow-2015-nfs.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://gunculture2point0.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/harvard-gun-study-stock-and-flow-2015-nfs.pdf Shelf Number: 153905 Keywords: Gun Ownership Gun Policy Guns Stolen Guns |