“Nearly 26,000 guns were traced from American crime scenes back to a government agency, law enforcement or the military between 2017 and 2021, the most recently available data, according to a report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
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“Internal ATF records show at least 52,529 police guns turned up at crime scenes since 2006, the earliest year data is available from the government.
The data behind this report Congress voted to keep #secret
In 2003, Congress passed the Tiahrt Amendment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-sell-guns-crime-atf/
“Since 2009, at least 11 states have passed laws that either encourage or require police departments to sell seized or recovered guns -- with some banning police from destroying guns altogether, according to an exclusive CNNMoney analysis of state laws.”
https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/21/news/police-selling-seized-guns/index.html