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Firearms seized in the Dominican Republic 2018 - 2022

InSight Crime

3 June 2022

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Aside from growing demand, the Dominican Republic's influx of assault weapons also underlines the centrality of US-based Dominican crime networks – combined with an abundance of US guns – in fuelling insecurity in the country.

Graph 1: Arms seized in the Dominican Republic 2018 - 2022

Year: Number
2022 (March): 590
2021: 2,616
2020: 791
2019: 1,686
2018: 853

Most seizures of illegally imported arms are made in Haina Port and come from the United States. In 2020, almost three-quarters of all guns traced by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to the Dominican Republic were produced in or first imported to the United States.

ID: N922

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