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Facts Studies and Reports

Title: Smoking Guns: Exposing the Gun Industry's Complicity in the Illegal Market

Publication Date: January 2003

What does it say?

This report is a primer on how guns move from legal commerce into the criminal gun market, with the full knowledge and complicity of the gun industry.  The material includes evidence uncovered in lawsuits.

How can I use it?

Use this evidence to advocate for reforms to the gun industry like background checks for all gun sales, including those at gun shows, stronger enforcement powers for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and limits on bulk purchases.

Citation

Rostron, Allen, Smoking Guns: Exposing the Gun Industry's Complicity in the Illegal Market, Washington, DC: Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 2003.