Re: 57% of crime guns traced by the BATF sold through 1% of gun dealers

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We made this point in litigation regarding whether ATF could use this simplistic statistical model as an excuse to require reporting of transactions.  The GCA authorizes reporting for tracing only in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation.  See our cert. petition at http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/lawsuits/bobs.petition.cert.pdf.  This was denied, but there's another case in the Ninth Circuit.   Steve   Stephen P. Halbrook Attorney at Law 10560 Main St., Suite 404 Fairfax, VA 22030 Tel. (703) 352-7276 Fax (703) 359-0938 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.stephenhalbrook.com   In a message dated 11/9/2005 12:08:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   The ATF's Commerce in Firearms in the United States (2000) famously reports that "57% of crime guns traced by the BATF sold through 1% of gun dealers."  Does anyone know off-hand what fraction of all gun sales those dealers account for?  Obviously, if those 1% accounted for 50% of all gun sales, then the 57% number wouldn't be particularly telling; if the 1% accounted for only 1% of all gun sales (but 57% of sales of all crime guns that the BATF traces), that might be different -- it wouldn't, in my view, justify holding manufacturers liable for selling to those dealers, but it may (at least) justify more investigation of the dealers and the like.     My apologies if the answer is in the report; the report seems to be missing from the ATF site, and the library hasn't yet tracked it down for me.  Thanks,     Eugene _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private.  Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.

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