ATF has developed a nation-wide strategy to reduce firearms trafficking and violent crime by seeking to prevent convicted felons, drug traffickers, and juvenile gang members from acquiring firearms from gun traffickers. These criminals often acquire firearms from persons who are otherwise not prohibited from possessing firearms, or by buying firearms from corrupt federal firearms licensees who sell firearms off-the-books in an attempt to escape federal regulation. This book examines the policy questions for Congress regarding the magnitude of Southwest border gun trafficking, the use and significance of ATF crime gun trace data, the possible ratification of an Inter-American Gun Trafficking Convention, and the adequacy of the federal statutes to deter and reduce illegal gun trafficking.
| ISBN | 1617285145 | | Publication date | 11 Mar 2011 | | ISBN13 | 9781617285141
(What's this?) | | DEWEY | 363.3309721 | | Publisher | Nova Science Publishers Inc | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Imprint | Nova Science Publishers Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Academic level | General |
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Preface; Gun Trafficking & the Southwest Border; Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning & Coordination Challenges (Statement of Jess T Ford, Director, International Affairs, & Trade, GAO); Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning & Coordination Challenges; Statement of Tom Diaz, Senior Policy Analyst, Violence Policy Center, before the Subcommittee on National Security & Foreign Affairs, Hearing on "Money, Guns, & Drugs: Are U.S. Inputs Fueling Violence on the U.S./Mexico Border?"; Statement of Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center, before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Index.
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