As part of the Campaign Against Illegal Guns, the Brady Center's Legal Action Project is working to reform and sanction the bad apple dealers who supply a majority of America's crime guns. About 1% of gun dealers nationwide supply more than half of all of our nation's crime guns. One of these dealers is Trader Sports, a notorious San Leandro, California gun dealer.

Trader Sports has sold at least 337 guns traced to crime, including guns involved in at least 27 homicides, 26 assaults, 2 robberies, and 282 additional gun crimes. Trader Sports has also sold at least 3,091 handguns in "multiple sales" - where multiple handguns are sold to a single buyer.

In 2003, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives inspected Trader Sports' records and found that an astonishing 7,477 firearms were missing from the store with no record of sale.

Based on repeated violations of federal law, ATF moved to revoke Trader Sports' federal firearms license in 2004. However, Trader Sports has continued to operate since 2004 by challenging ATF's revocation attempt in court. The license revocation is now scheduled to take effect in June 2006.

The Brady Center is working to ensure that Trader Sports is sanctioned for its repeated violations of federal law and its sale of hundreds of guns used in dangerous crimes.

These efforts are part of the Campaign Against Illegal Guns, an initiative of the Brady Center and the Brady Campaign and its dedicated network Million Mom March Chapters to champion and educate our leaders and the American public about common sense solutions to the illegal gun problem.

Our goals include strengthening law enforcement tools to crack down on corrupt gun dealers, stopping large-volume gun sales that supply traffickers, and extending Brady background checks to all gun sales.