"People don't go to a mall and steal a firearm from a locked car to go hunting. Those guns are going straight to the street," said Dettelbach, whose agency was not involved in the report. “They’re going to violent people who can’t pass a background check. They’re going to gangs. They’re going to drug dealers, and they’re going to hurt and kill the people who live in the next town, the next county or the next state."
Guns stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds
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"The goal is to catch more violent people, truly violent. And, second, to do a better job at seeing if we can prevent them from getting armed in the first place," ATF Director Steve Dettelbach said in an interview.
DOJ ramps up efforts to reduce violent crime with gun intel center, carjacking forces
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