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- Része ennek Records of the Office of the Chief of Staff (Clinton Administration), Lynn Cutler's Files
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OCR Page 1 of 35EXPANSION OF THE YOUTH CRIME GUN INTERDICTION INITIATIVE
JULY 19, 1997
BACKGROUND:
On July 8, 1996, President Clinton directed the Attorney General and
Secretary Rubin to implement a pilot program in 17 cities to trace as many
guns as possible, especially those trafficked to kids.
Under this pilot program, the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative
(YCGII), Federal and local law enforcement in each city worked together
to submit all crime guns seized for tracing and use this information to
identity and locate illegal gun traffickers.
Since then, the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (ATF) has provided local police departments and ATF special
agents with specialized training, computers and software -- and traced as
many guns as possible through the National Training Center. Today's
report details the findings of this effort.
FINDINGS OF TODAY'S REPORT:
Confirms kids and guns is a serious problem in all 17 cities. Juvenile and
youth crime guns account for nearly half (45%) of the firearms recovered
from crime scenes and criminals.
Reveals that kids use some of the most concealable and dangerous guns.
While 80% of youth and juvenile crime guns are handguns -- and 60% are
semiautomatic pistols, only 70% of adult crime guns are handguns -- and
less than half, or 47%, are semiautomatics.
Crime guns used by kids are concentrated among a relatively small
number of makes and models. The 10 most popular types of crime guns
account for 25% of all crime guns. In some cities, this percentage is as
high as 50% for youth or juveniles (e.g., Birmingham, Memphis).
At least 25% of the crime guns used by kids move rapidly (3 years or less)
from first retail sale to crime scenes. That means that a significant portion
of legally purchased guns are quickly and illegally diverted to kids and
criminals.
The number of trace requests nearly doubled in the 17 pilot cities. While
not all traces submitted could be completed, for a variety of reasons,
overall requests submitted to ATF jumped from about 20,000 to 37,000.
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