99k Over a five-year period, more than 99,000 traced crime guns were purchased with the intent to traffic them. Everytown for Gun Safety, “Five Things to Know About Crime Guns, Gun Trafficking, and Background Checks,” 2022. Last updated: 2.28.2022 Share
>45% Of the over 1.4 million crime guns traced from 2017 to 2021, more than 45 percent were used in a crime within just three years of their initial retail sale. stat
>1.5x On average, over 1.5 times more Glocks were recovered than the second-leading manufacturer across the collected data. stat