Gun Policy News
Biggest Providers of US Crime Guns: Southern States with Lax Gun Laws
5 December 2008
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Ten U.S. states are responsible for the bulk of illegal guns shipped across state lines for use in crimes, said a report released Friday by a coalition of mayors.
About 30 per cent of guns traced by U.S. government agents in 2006 and 2007 during crime investigations were bought in a state other than where the crime occurred, said the report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which largely blamed the transport of illegal guns on states with lax... (GunPolicy.org)