Thousands of prison inmates were surveyed across the United States with specific questions on how they obtained firearms. That is one of the findings from the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics report, “ Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates 2016“.
Of course it begs the question, how do these crooks get guns? Well, they don’t buy them at retail outlets, gun shows, or on the internet. A day doesn’t go by when you can’t read, see, or hear about a gun-related crime on the news. A handful of others, including Detroit, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, will be getting extra equipment to upgrade their existing systems.Sadly, robberies, aggravated assaults, gang shootings, and a myriad of gun crimes are an every day occurrence in cities across the country. The cities with departments receiving NIBIN access include Anchorage, Alaska, Des Moines, Iowa, and Lexington, Kentucky. The California Department of Justice said it would take more than $12 million for it to do so. Although some local police departments in California have deployed NIBIN, the state crime lab hasn’t. There are some other obstacles that prevent NIBIN from being used to the maximum extent. As recently reported by Ann Givens of The Trace, only 25% of all ballistics evidence collected nationwide is entered into NIBIN.
“And he’d always fire a shot. We were able to trace him to 28 armed robberies by the shell casings. “One guy, he had a machine gun and he was going around robbing all the bodegas in the south and west districts of Newark,” O’Connor told Quartz. 40-caliber “community” Glock recovered in Syracuse, New York had been used 37 times, killing one and wounding nine.)Īccording to former Newark lieutenant James O’Connor, who spent time assigned to a joint ATF-Newark task force, the NIBIN system helped him “track a lot of bad guys down.” Even if a match is found, Laterza said, “it doesn’t necessarily mean that person did the shooting, because there are things called ‘ community guns‘”-shared firearms used by multiple members of a gang or other criminal organization.
The value of database does have its limits. These photographs are then entered into the NIBIN database to be shared with all other connected agencies. Once the spent shell casing is physically loaded into the NIBIN apparatus, which Laterza says looks “sort of like a Keurig coffee machine,” the system takes an extremely detailed high-definition image of it and picks up markings not visible to the naked eye.
“Hardened steel against a substantially softer metal like brass-the harder metal’s going to imprint on the softer metal, indicating the toolmark unique to that firearm and that firearm only.” “When you pull that trigger and that explosion occurs, a couple of things are happening,” Laterza explained.
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