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2022
Legal Purchase
68,000 — The number of guns recovered from crime scenes in 2020
(nation wide) that had been purchased less than seven months earlier.
Guns sold in 2020 were more likely to show up at crime scenes within a year than in any previous period, according to “time-to-crime” figures published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It’s some of the first evidence to suggest that the surge of gun purchases in 2020 is connected to rising gun violence. [The Trace]