Many Guns Go Missing From Shops, Study Says

[WhiteFeather]

More hype and BS from the anti-gunners with yet another useless "study", with un supported claims.

Notice never in ANY of the propaganda or proposed so called “common sense legislation” that they say "we need to do something", do they ever focus on criminals or criminal actions, its only firearms fault that is the root cause for everything wrong in America.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/us...in&oref=slogin

Many Guns Go Missing From Shops, Study Says

WASHINGTON — More than 30,000 firearms are unaccounted for in gun dealers’ inventories nationwide, according to a new study by a gun control group.

Further, the group, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, says its finding most likely undercounts the missing firearms, since the data used, from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are drawn from the compliance inspections that were conducted at gun dealerships in the 2007 fiscal year. Just 10,000 dealers were inspected, one-sixth of the nation’s total.

The center, which released the study Tuesday, is calling for increased regulation of gun dealers, including a requirement that they take physical inventory of their firearms to account for each weapon annually. At present, dealers need keep a record of their acquisition and disposition of firearms, but not a regular inventory.

“We’ve seen that guns that dealers claim are lost are frequently sold to gun traffickers and sold off the books,” said Daniel R. Vice, a senior attorney for the Brady Center.

The Brady Center was founded by James Brady and his wife, Sarah, after the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan left Mr. Brady, the White House press secretary, partly paralyzed. The center sees a direct correlation between missing firearms and street violence.

“Anything that makes it easier for dangerous criminals to get guns is a danger for public safety,” Mr. Vice said.

The National Rifle Association sharply criticized the report.

“No one in America should place any faith in any alleged study coming from the Brady campaign,” said Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the N.R.A.

“If anyone is breaking the law, they ought to be charged criminally,” Mr. Arulanandam said. “There are plenty of laws on the books that address that issue, and all that needs to be done is those laws need to be enforced.”

A spokesman for the firearms bureau, Nicholas Colucci, said that in his experience, many gun dealers did take inventory annually or even more frequently, although not required to do so by federal law.

Mr. Colucci also said shops from which most of the 30,000 weapons were missing had since gone out of business, some because their licenses had been revoked as a result of the inspections. No firearms were missing, he added, at 90 percent of the inspected businesses

[mikepro8]

LOVE the response by the NRA...

[Dredly]

I'm curious what the BATFE said/did in response to missing guns? I didn't hear of any sites recently getting their FFL's revoked (other then Sarco).

Did I miss it?

[625]

Those gun grabbers are so predictable. They admit that they think the SCOTUS will rule that the 2nd is just like the other 9 in the Bill of Rights (a personal right). So, the socialists just shift their effort. They go after the dealers and ammo and certain types of guns, etc., etc.

[Philadelphia]

“Anything that makes it easier for dangerous criminals to get guns is a danger for public safety,” Mr. Vice said.

Unless, that "anything" makes it more difficult for the law abiding to obtain guns, which is likewise a danger for public safety.