Barajas is the most prolific of the gun traffickers identified in a cache of ATF records obtained by The Trace.
The documents contain the results of the bureau's crime gun traces, through which firearms collected by law enforcement are tracked to their original sale by a licensed gun dealer, and cover 2,922 firearms recovered by Mexican authorities between 2007 and 2010.
Because federal law prohibits the ATF and local law enforcement agencies from releasing the results of crime gun traces, firearm trafficking patterns are hidden from public view.
The trove of records reviewed by The Trace tell two clear stories: High-volume gun traffickers often depend on a single retail gun dealer for most of their wares.
The 11 traffickers who appear most frequently on the list of crime guns reviewed by The Trace were each tied to 10 or more weapons recovered in Mexico.
The river of iron is fed by tributaries that spring from stores like GAT. The data reviewed by The Trace represents only a slim fraction of the total number of American-purchased guns recovered by Mexican authorities: every year, the ATF conducts 10,000 to 20,000 traces of guns found at Mexican crime scenes, 70 percent of which were originally sold by American retailers.
Experts on crime guns say the data highlights how smugglers find the weak points in America's sprawling, loosely regulated gun market.
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/09/atf-documents-crime-guns-us-mexico-trafficking/
The documents contain the results of the bureau's crime gun traces, through which firearms collected by law enforcement are tracked to their original sale by a licensed gun dealer, and cover 2,922 firearms recovered by Mexican authorities between 2007 and 2010.
Because federal law prohibits the ATF and local law enforcement agencies from releasing the results of crime gun traces, firearm trafficking patterns are hidden from public view.
The trove of records reviewed by The Trace tell two clear stories: High-volume gun traffickers often depend on a single retail gun dealer for most of their wares.
The 11 traffickers who appear most frequently on the list of crime guns reviewed by The Trace were each tied to 10 or more weapons recovered in Mexico.
The river of iron is fed by tributaries that spring from stores like GAT. The data reviewed by The Trace represents only a slim fraction of the total number of American-purchased guns recovered by Mexican authorities: every year, the ATF conducts 10,000 to 20,000 traces of guns found at Mexican crime scenes, 70 percent of which were originally sold by American retailers.
Experts on crime guns say the data highlights how smugglers find the weak points in America's sprawling, loosely regulated gun market.
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/09/atf-documents-crime-guns-us-mexico-trafficking/
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