Thought I’d grab this low-hanging fruit:
Good Hint Ladd! They come from ILLINOIS!!!!! (PDF)
BTW this data isn’t unique, every state report I’ve read, and every year I’ve read it shows that the vast majority of the ATF traced guns trace right back to the state where they were recovered.
Sorry kids, but the “Iron Pipeline” is about as real as bigfoot!
Oh and on another note does anybody know what that bizzao gun is at the top of the ATF PDF? Looks like an old Beretta had a lovechild with a SIG, and probably drank during the pregnancy.
Looks like a Taurus 908.
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Auto-Pistols/Taurus_PT908.htm
Good find! Friggin’ strange looking gun!
**UPDATE** Found some videos online, and man it really does seem to be a SIG/Beretta love-child. SIG looking slide, lockwork, and decocker, Beretta style controls and takedown….
but . . .but . . .but . . .I thought that the public couldn’t get trace data!?!?!!!
You mean, that evil Tiahrt amendment line about gun traces was a lie too? Color me shocked. Again. It seems that teh Brady folks etc. are not to be trusted when it comes to actual facts.
Heh, well they still can’t. They want to find the gun shop that sells guns to bad people legally and shut them down….and then find the shops that profile people and won’t sell to them, and declare them racist, and shut them down. This dovetails nicely with banning private sales, as how many people would be willing to drive for two hours just to LOOK at guns to buy, or to buy their neighbor’s old gun?