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First ATF Report Shows Over 190,000 Guns Lost or Stolen in US, 2012
17 June 2013
USA Today
WASHINGTON — Slightly more than 190,000 firearms were reported lost or stolen across the country last year, according to a new report by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.
The audit, ordered by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the December Connecticut school massacre, is the first such public accounting by the ATF.
The overwhelming majority — 183,660 — were stolen guns. That number is up from 145,300 firearms reported stolen in... (GunPolicy.org)