Crime Gun Trace Analysis Report: The Illegal Youth Firearms Market in San Antonio, Texas, February 1999. The Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative.

摘要

In July 1996, President Clinton announced the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative (YCGII). The initiative brings together federal, state, and local law enforcement officials to improve information about the illegal sources of guns recovered from juveniles and adult criminals, and to use that information to strengthen enforcement of the nations firearms laws. One year later, in August 1997, the Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) released the first YCGII report, analyzing crime gun trace information on guns recovered in 17 cities. Upon release of the one year report, President Clinton announced the expansion of YCGII to 10 additional cities. The attached report, Crime Gun Trace Analysis Reports: The Illegal Youth Firearms Market in 27 Communities (the Trace Reports), provides ATF crime gun analysis for a second year. YCGII reflects the broad consensus in our country that juveniles should not have illegal access to firearms, and that certain people should never have access to guns. Through YCGII, ATF is addressing a fundamental problem in achieving those goals: insufficient information about how minors and criminals illegally acquire guns has impeded efforts to investigate and arrest illegal suppliers of firearms.