Reducing Illegal Firearms Trafficking: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned

摘要

Throughout the United States, violence involving firearms remains at analarmingly high rate. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 1996 Uniform Crime Reports indicates that firearms were used in 29 percent of all murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults in the United States in that year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, firearms-related violence is a leading cause of injury-related death, second only to automobile-related fatalities. To address the illegal firearms trafficking issue, the Bureau of Justice Assistance created the Firearms Trafficking Program in fiscal year 1993. This monograph details the approaches sites used to achieve their goals, presents the lessons learned in these firearms trafficking reduction programs, and discusses the factors that either helped or hindered the programs' successes.