Over a five-year period, more than 99,000 traced crime guns were purchased with the intent to traffic them.

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Recoveries of ghost guns nearly tripled from 2020 to 2021.

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The number of trafficked guns increased 48 percent from 2020 to 2021.

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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.

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On average, over 1.5 times more Glocks were recovered than the second-leading manufacturer across the collected data.

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