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Newsweek Push Anti-gun Agenda with Phony Gun Trace Numbers
AmmoLand ^ | 9 August, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/14/2024 5:13:12 AM PDT by marktwain

In an article published by Newsweek on August 7, 2024, Dan Gooding AND Billal Rahman make some incendiary claims. From the article:

Immigration into the United States is being partly driven by gun violence — which itself is fueled by firearms bought in the U.S. and illegally transported back to Mexico by organized crime networks.

Over 200,000 firearms found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico between 2015 and 2022 were linked back to the U.S., recent data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) shows.

The 200,000 number seemed interesting. This correspondent went to the ATF website to look at the original data from the ATF on traces.  The ATF website provides links for traces of Central America and Mexico. The data is given by year for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama. Only seven years of data is given for Nicaragua. For Mexico, the data is linked to five-year aggregates, but the total for each year is given. It is not hard to dig out how many firearms were shown to have come from the United States each year. The data is divided into various categories. A major division is U.S. Sourced Firearms and Undetermined Source Country for Firearms.

Using the ATF data, the U.S. Sourced Firearms were totaled for 2015 through 2022. The results are as follows:

The total traced back to the United States for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for the eight years 2015-2022 was 14,856. The total for Mexico

(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; cnn; guns; media; mexico; msm; phony; trace
Gun to be traced are not the same as guns from the USA. The numbers used in Newsweek article are numbers of guns submitted to the ATF to trace. About 60% of those submitted were found to have come from the USA.
1 posted on 08/14/2024 5:13:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Hopefully they find all those “ghost” guns hiding in “the cloud” right over our heads. 👆🔫☁


2 posted on 08/14/2024 5:17:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: marktwain

We don’t have a gun problem; we have a behavior problem.


3 posted on 08/14/2024 5:32:10 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: marktwain

Did they mention that Eric Holder was the one who sold them?


4 posted on 08/14/2024 5:36:07 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: marktwain

I’m sure if the US began confiscating guns, criminals, gang bangers and illegals would be the first ones to lineup and surrender their guns. I’m also sure the cartels would not immediately start sending thousands of guns across the US Southern Border into the hands of the aforementioned gun owners.


5 posted on 08/14/2024 6:03:08 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: marktwain

It’s somehow not misinformation when they do it.


6 posted on 08/14/2024 6:03:16 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: marktwain

Fast and furious again. Highlight foreign crime and use that as an excuse to end the second amendment.


7 posted on 08/14/2024 6:07:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: marktwain

And none of this address the firearms traffic from China to South and Central America.


8 posted on 08/14/2024 7:01:09 AM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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To: G Larry

Correct. Using trace numbers is simply silly. It is a publicity stunt, meant for PR. There is no significant analysis.


9 posted on 08/15/2024 10:00:24 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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