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Gun shows in the United States

May 04, 2023

"Gunshow" redirects here. For other uses, see Gunshow (disambiguation).

In the United States, a gun show is an event where promoters generally rent large public venues and then rent tables for display areas for dealers of guns and related items, and charge admission for buyers.[1] The majority of guns for sale at gun shows are modern sporting firearms.[1] Approximately 5,000 gun shows occur annually in the United States.

Venues and attendance

 
An advertisement for a gun show

Gun shows are typically held in large public facilities such as arenas, fairgrounds, civic centers, and armories.[2] Show promoters charge vendors fees for display tables (from $20 to $145) and booths (from $200 to $400) and charge admission fees (from $5 to $50) for the public.[3]: 6  In addition to guns, ammunition, knives, militaria, books and other items are sold.[2]: 4–5 

In 2005, Michael Bouchard, Assistant Director/Field Operations of ATF, estimated that 5,000 gun shows take place each year in the United States.[4] Most gun shows have 2,500 to 15,000 attendees over a two-day period.[3] The number of tables at a gun show varies from as few as fifty to as many as 2,000.[5] At the largest gun shows, over 1,000 firearms are sold over two days.[3] In 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that it found no definite numbers for U.S. gun shows, but said that estimates ranged from 2,000 to 5,200 a year.[3] In 1999, the ATF reported that 4,442 gun shows were advertised in 1998 in Gun Show Calendar.[2]: 4 

SHOT Show

The largest gun show in the United States is the annual SHOT Show. Only trade professionals, such as buyers for retail stores or law enforcement agencies, are allowed entry. It has attracted over 60,000 attendees to its 630,000 square feet of exhibition space in Las Vegas. The show is sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry group of firearms and hunting businesses. It is among the top 25 trade shows in the country.[6]

Restrictions

Under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), firearm dealers with a Federal Firearms License (FFL) were prohibited from doing business at gun shows (they were only permitted to do business at the address listed on their license). That changed with the enactment of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA), which allows FFLs to transfer firearms at gun shows provided they follow the provisions of the GCA and other pertinent federal regulations. In 1999, ATF reported that between 50% and 75% of the vendors at gun shows had FFLs.[2] Only buyers from within the state may purchase handguns.[1]

Gun show loophole

Main article: Gun show loophole

The so-called "Gun show loophole" is a controversial political term in the United States coined by gun control supporters that refers to sales of firearms by private sellers, including those done at gun shows. Under federal law, private-party sellers are not required to perform background checks on buyers. Private sellers are also not required to record the sale or ask for identification. There are some Federal rules regarding the sales.[7] As of August 2013, 33 states do not require background checks for sales of firearms by private individuals, while 17 states and Washington, D.C., do require background checks for some or all private firearm sales.[8] This is in contrast to sales by gun stores and other Federal Firearms License holders, who are required by federal law to perform background checks of all buyers, and to record all sales, regardless of venue (i.e. private sales).

Research and studies

In 2000, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published "Following the Gun", its analysis of more than 1,530 trafficking investigations over a two-and-a-half-year period and found gun shows to have the second highest number of trafficked guns per investigation, after corrupt FFL dealers. (Straw purchasers were the most common channel, but averaged a relatively small number of trafficked guns per investigation compared to corrupt FFLs and gun shows.)[9]: x–xi  These investigations involved a total of 84,128 firearms that had been diverted from legal to illegal commerce. All told, the report identified more than 26,000 firearms that had been illegally trafficked through gun shows in 212 separate investigations. The report stated that:

A prior review of ATF gun show investigations shows that prohibited persons, such as convicted felons and juveniles, do personally buy firearms at gun shows and gun shows are sources of firearms that are trafficked to such prohibited persons. The gun show review found that firearms were diverted at and through gun shows by straw purchasers, unregulated private sellers, and licensed dealers. Felons were associated with selling or purchasing firearms in 46 percent of the gun show investigations. Firearms that were illegally diverted at or through gun shows were recovered in subsequent crimes, including homicide and robbery, in more than a third of the gun show investigations.[9]: 17 

A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report on "Firearms Use by Offenders" found that only 0.8% of prison inmates reported acquiring firearms used in their crimes "At a gun show", with repeat offenders less likely than first-time offenders to report acquiring firearms from a retail source, gun show or flea market. This 2001 study examined data from a 1997 Department of Justice survey of more than 18,000 federal and state prison inmates in 1,409 State prisons and 127 Federal prisons.[10][11] The remaining 99.2% of inmates reported obtaining firearms from other sources, including "From a friend/family member" (36.8%), "Off the street/from a drug dealer" (20.9%), "From a fence/black market source" (9.6%), "From a pawnshop", "From a flea market", "From the victim", or "In a burglary". 9% of inmates replied "Don't Know/Other" to the question of where they acquired a firearm and 4.4% refused to answer.[11] The Department of Justice did not attempt to verify the firearms reported in the survey or trace them to determine their chain of possession from original retail sale to the time they were transferred to the inmates surveyed (in cases where inmates were not the original retail purchaser).[citation needed]

Garen Wintemute, a professor of emergency room medicine and director of UC Davis' Violence Prevention Research Program, released a study in 2007 which held that gun shows are a venue for illegal activity, including straw purchases and unlicensed sales to prohibited individuals.[12]

In 2011, economists Mark Duggan and Randi Hjalmarsson at the University of Maryland and Brian Jacob from the University of Michigan released a paper which stated that gun shows do not lead to substantial increases in either gun homicides or gun suicides.[13]

ATF criminal investigations at gun shows

From 2004 to 2006, ATF conducted surveillance and undercover investigations at 195 gun shows (approximately 2% of all shows). Specific targeting of suspected individuals (77%) resulted in 121 individual arrests and 5,345 firearms seizures. Seventy nine of the 121 ATF operation plans were known suspects previously under investigation.[3]

Additionally, ATF Field Offices report that:

  • Between 2002 and 2005, more than 400 guns legally purchased at gun shows from licensed dealers in the city of Richmond, Virginia, were later recovered in connection with criminal activity. Bouchard said, "These figures do not take into account firearms that may have been sold at Richmond area gun shows by unlicensed sellers, as these transactions are more difficult to track."[4] It is noteworthy that the "in connection with criminal activity" category includes stolen guns later recovered from burglaries, but the report does not specify how many guns in the 400 gun figure cited were not guns used in the commission of a crime, but that were rather the fruits of criminal activity.
  • The Department of Justice reports, "after reviewing hundreds of trace reports associated with guns used in crime recovered in the New Orleans area and interviewing known gang members and other criminals, ATF Special Agents identified area gun shows as a source used by local gang members and other criminals to obtain guns."[3]
  • In 2003 and 2004, the San Francisco ATF Field Division conducted six general operations at Reno, Nevada, gun shows to investigate interstate firearms trafficking. During these operations, "agents purchased firearms and identified violations related to "off paper" sales, sales to out-of-state residents, and dealing in firearms without a license." The "ATF seized or purchased 400 firearms before making arrests and executing search warrants, which resulted in the seizure of an additional 600 firearms and the recovery of explosives."[3]
  • ATF's Columbus Field Division conducted its anti-trafficking operations based on intelligence from Cleveland police that "many of the guns recovered in high-crime areas of the city had been purchased at local gun shows." Subsequent gun show sting operations resulted in the seizure of "5 guns, one indictment, and two pending indictments for felony possession of a firearm." The state of Ohio is one of the top ten source states for recovered guns used in crime.[3]
  • The ATF's Phoenix Field Division reported that "many gun shows attracted large numbers of gang members from Mexico and California. They often bought large quantities of assault weapons and smuggled them into Mexico or transported them to California."[3] Garen Wintemute, a professor at the University of California at Davis, calls Arizona and Texas a "gunrunner's paradise".[14]

Regarding the trafficking of firearms from the U.S. into Mexico, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in June 2009 that stated:

While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally smuggled into Mexico in a given year, about 87 percent of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced in the last 5 years originated in the United States, according to data from Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). According to U.S. and Mexican government officials, these firearms have been increasingly more powerful and lethal in recent years. Many of these firearms come from gun shops and gun shows in Southwest border states.[15]

The GAO report has been corroborated through other sources. William Newell, Special Agent in Charge of ATF's Phoenix Field Division, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee in March 2009, stating, "Drug traffickers are able to obtain firearms and ammunition more easily in the U.S., including sources in the secondary market such as gun shows and flea markets. Depending on State law, the private sale of firearms at those venues often does not require record keeping or background checks prior to the sale."[16] The ATF has also reported that, "Trends indicate the firearms illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are becoming more powerful. ATF has analyzed firearms seizures in Mexico from FY 2005–07 and identified the following weapons most commonly used by drug traffickers: 9mm pistols; .38 Super pistols; 5.7mm pistols; .45-caliber pistols; AR-15 type rifles; and AK-47 type rifles."[17] However, this is based only on the weapons sent to the ATF to be traced, a small portion of all firearms seized by the Mexican government, and the extent to which they are representative of all seized firearms is disputed. According to Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, "Mexico's southern border with Guatemala has long been an entry point for such weapons and today could account for 10 to 15 percent coming through."[18] William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott have described Mexico as a "virtual arms bazaar", where one can purchase a wide variety of military weapons from international sources: "fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers."[19] In addition, they say that Mexican drug cartels have long-established drug- and gun-running ties with Latin American revolutionary movements such as Colombia's FARC.[19] Further, China has supplied military arms to Latin America and Chinese-made assault weapons have been recovered in Mexico, according to Amnesty International.[19] Finally, the Mexican army has seen rampant desertion rates (150,000 in the last six years) and many soldiers have taken their weapons home with them, including Belgian-made M16s.[19]

It is difficult to legally acquire fully automatic firearms at American gun shows (as opposed to the semiautomatic-only versions of these firearms that are legal on the U.S. civilian market), due to National Firearms Act (NFA).[citation needed] To legally purchase or transfer a fully automatic firearm, U.S. citizens must pay a $200 transfer tax, submit a full set of fingerprints on FBI Form FD-258, obtain certification provided by a chief law enforcement officer ("CLEO": the local chief of police, sheriff of the county, head of the State police, or State or local district attorney or prosecutor), and obtain final approval from the BATF on a Form 4 transfer of NFA registration to the new owner.[20][21] All private citizens must wait, typically months, before receiving the tax stamp for the $200 tax paid, authorizing taking possession of the already paid-for fully automatic firearm. Until in receipt of the tax stamp, the Class III dealer retains control of the fully automatic firearm. In addition, only fully automatic firearms manufactured before the Firearm Owner's Protection Act of 1986 are permitted to be transferred. No fully automatic firearms recovered in Mexico have been traced to the United States.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Vizzard, William J. (2012). "Gun Shows". In Carter, Greg Lee (ed.). Guns in American Society: G-Q. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 509–511. ISBN 978-0-313-38671-8.
  2. ^ a b c d U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Justice (January 1999). "Gun Shows: Brady Checks and Crime Gun Traces" (PDF). atf.gov. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Retrieved June 27, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Investigative Operations at Gun Shows" (PDF). justice.gov. U.S. Department of Justice. June 2007. I-2007-007.
  4. ^ a b (PDF). Hearings before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 109th Congress, 2d Session, February 28, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
  5. ^ "Gun Shows: Brady Checks and Crime Gun Traces" (PDF). Washington, DC: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
  6. ^ Valentine, Matt (Sep 12, 2013). "The Gun Lobbying Group You Don't Hear About". The Atlantic.
  7. ^ "Top 10 Frequently Asked Firearms Questions and Answers", Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  8. ^ "Universal Background Checks & the Private Sale Loophole Policy Summary". Smart Gun Laws. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. August 21, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  9. ^ a b (PDF). Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). June 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-03-31.
  10. ^ Caroline Wolf Harlow, Firearm Use by Offenders (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Nov. 6, 2001)
  11. ^ a b "US Department of Justice, Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, Firearm Use By Offenders" (PDF). DoJ.
  12. ^ Wintemute, Garen J. (2007). "Gun shows across a multistate American gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies". Injury Prevention. 13 (3): 150–155. doi:10.1136/ip.2007.016212. PMC 2598366. PMID 17567968.
  13. ^ Duggan, Mark; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Jacob, Brian (2011). "The Short-Term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas". Review of Economics and Statistics. 93 (3): 786–799. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00120. S2CID 49554850.
  14. ^ "U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico". Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post. October 29, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
  15. ^ "Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges" (PDF). gao.gov. United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). June 2009. GAO-09-709. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  16. ^ (PDF). U.S. House Appropriations Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  17. ^ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco (2008-08-31). "ATF Fact Sheet: Project Gunrunner [September 2008]". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ Jonsson, Patrik; Llana, Sara Miller (April 8, 2009). "Are Mexican drug traffickers armed with US guns?". Christian Science Monitor.
  19. ^ a b c d e La Jeunesse, William; Lott, Maxim (April 2, 2009). FOXNews.com.
  20. ^ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (1996). "(M15) What are the required transfer procedures for an individual who is not qualified as a manufacturer, importer, or dealer of NFA firearms?". Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide. DIANE. p. 187. ISBN 9781428951860.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (2005). "(M18) What law enforcement officials' certifications on an application to transfer or make an NFA weapon are acceptable to ATF?". Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide. DIANE. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4289-5186-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Further reading

  • Burbick, Joan (2006). Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy. New Press. ISBN 978-1-59558-087-0.
  • Vizzard, William J. (2012). "Gun Shows". In Carter, Greg Lee (ed.). Guns in American Society: G-Q. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 509–511. ISBN 978-0-313-38671-8.


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Gunshow redirects here For other uses see Gunshow disambiguation In the United States a gun show is an event where promoters generally rent large public venues and then rent tables for display areas for dealers of guns and related items and charge admission for buyers 1 The majority of guns for sale at gun shows are modern sporting firearms 1 Approximately 5 000 gun shows occur annually in the United States Houston gun show at the George R Brown Convention Center Contents 1 Venues and attendance 1 1 SHOT Show 2 Restrictions 3 Gun show loophole 4 Research and studies 5 ATF criminal investigations at gun shows 6 See also 7 References 8 Further readingVenues and attendance Edit An advertisement for a gun show Gun shows are typically held in large public facilities such as arenas fairgrounds civic centers and armories 2 Show promoters charge vendors fees for display tables from 20 to 145 and booths from 200 to 400 and charge admission fees from 5 to 50 for the public 3 6 In addition to guns ammunition knives militaria books and other items are sold 2 4 5 In 2005 Michael Bouchard Assistant Director Field Operations of ATF estimated that 5 000 gun shows take place each year in the United States 4 Most gun shows have 2 500 to 15 000 attendees over a two day period 3 The number of tables at a gun show varies from as few as fifty to as many as 2 000 5 At the largest gun shows over 1 000 firearms are sold over two days 3 In 2007 the U S Department of Justice DOJ reported that it found no definite numbers for U S gun shows but said that estimates ranged from 2 000 to 5 200 a year 3 In 1999 the ATF reported that 4 442 gun shows were advertised in 1998 in Gun Show Calendar 2 4 SHOT Show Edit The largest gun show in the United States is the annual SHOT Show Only trade professionals such as buyers for retail stores or law enforcement agencies are allowed entry It has attracted over 60 000 attendees to its 630 000 square feet of exhibition space in Las Vegas The show is sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation an industry group of firearms and hunting businesses It is among the top 25 trade shows in the country 6 Restrictions EditUnder the Gun Control Act of 1968 GCA firearm dealers with a Federal Firearms License FFL were prohibited from doing business at gun shows they were only permitted to do business at the address listed on their license That changed with the enactment of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 FOPA which allows FFLs to transfer firearms at gun shows provided they follow the provisions of the GCA and other pertinent federal regulations In 1999 ATF reported that between 50 and 75 of the vendors at gun shows had FFLs 2 Only buyers from within the state may purchase handguns 1 Gun show loophole EditMain article Gun show loophole The so called Gun show loophole is a controversial political term in the United States coined by gun control supporters that refers to sales of firearms by private sellers including those done at gun shows Under federal law private party sellers are not required to perform background checks on buyers Private sellers are also not required to record the sale or ask for identification There are some Federal rules regarding the sales 7 As of August 2013 33 states do not require background checks for sales of firearms by private individuals while 17 states and Washington D C do require background checks for some or all private firearm sales 8 This is in contrast to sales by gun stores and other Federal Firearms License holders who are required by federal law to perform background checks of all buyers and to record all sales regardless of venue i e private sales Research and studies EditIn 2000 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms ATF published Following the Gun its analysis of more than 1 530 trafficking investigations over a two and a half year period and found gun shows to have the second highest number of trafficked guns per investigation after corrupt FFL dealers Straw purchasers were the most common channel but averaged a relatively small number of trafficked guns per investigation compared to corrupt FFLs and gun shows 9 x xi These investigations involved a total of 84 128 firearms that had been diverted from legal to illegal commerce All told the report identified more than 26 000 firearms that had been illegally trafficked through gun shows in 212 separate investigations The report stated that A prior review of ATF gun show investigations shows that prohibited persons such as convicted felons and juveniles do personally buy firearms at gun shows and gun shows are sources of firearms that are trafficked to such prohibited persons The gun show review found that firearms were diverted at and through gun shows by straw purchasers unregulated private sellers and licensed dealers Felons were associated with selling or purchasing firearms in 46 percent of the gun show investigations Firearms that were illegally diverted at or through gun shows were recovered in subsequent crimes including homicide and robbery in more than a third of the gun show investigations 9 17 A Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS report on Firearms Use by Offenders found that only 0 8 of prison inmates reported acquiring firearms used in their crimes At a gun show with repeat offenders less likely than first time offenders to report acquiring firearms from a retail source gun show or flea market This 2001 study examined data from a 1997 Department of Justice survey of more than 18 000 federal and state prison inmates in 1 409 State prisons and 127 Federal prisons 10 11 The remaining 99 2 of inmates reported obtaining firearms from other sources including From a friend family member 36 8 Off the street from a drug dealer 20 9 From a fence black market source 9 6 From a pawnshop From a flea market From the victim or In a burglary 9 of inmates replied Don t Know Other to the question of where they acquired a firearm and 4 4 refused to answer 11 The Department of Justice did not attempt to verify the firearms reported in the survey or trace them to determine their chain of possession from original retail sale to the time they were transferred to the inmates surveyed in cases where inmates were not the original retail purchaser citation needed Garen Wintemute a professor of emergency room medicine and director of UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program released a study in 2007 which held that gun shows are a venue for illegal activity including straw purchases and unlicensed sales to prohibited individuals 12 In 2011 economists Mark Duggan and Randi Hjalmarsson at the University of Maryland and Brian Jacob from the University of Michigan released a paper which stated that gun shows do not lead to substantial increases in either gun homicides or gun suicides 13 ATF criminal investigations at gun shows EditFrom 2004 to 2006 ATF conducted surveillance and undercover investigations at 195 gun shows approximately 2 of all shows Specific targeting of suspected individuals 77 resulted in 121 individual arrests and 5 345 firearms seizures Seventy nine of the 121 ATF operation plans were known suspects previously under investigation 3 Additionally ATF Field Offices report that Between 2002 and 2005 more than 400 guns legally purchased at gun shows from licensed dealers in the city of Richmond Virginia were later recovered in connection with criminal activity Bouchard said These figures do not take into account firearms that may have been sold at Richmond area gun shows by unlicensed sellers as these transactions are more difficult to track 4 It is noteworthy that the in connection with criminal activity category includes stolen guns later recovered from burglaries but the report does not specify how many guns in the 400 gun figure cited were not guns used in the commission of a crime but that were rather the fruits of criminal activity The Department of Justice reports after reviewing hundreds of trace reports associated with guns used in crime recovered in the New Orleans area and interviewing known gang members and other criminals ATF Special Agents identified area gun shows as a source used by local gang members and other criminals to obtain guns 3 In 2003 and 2004 the San Francisco ATF Field Division conducted six general operations at Reno Nevada gun shows to investigate interstate firearms trafficking During these operations agents purchased firearms and identified violations related to off paper sales sales to out of state residents and dealing in firearms without a license The ATF seized or purchased 400 firearms before making arrests and executing search warrants which resulted in the seizure of an additional 600 firearms and the recovery of explosives 3 ATF s Columbus Field Division conducted its anti trafficking operations based on intelligence from Cleveland police that many of the guns recovered in high crime areas of the city had been purchased at local gun shows Subsequent gun show sting operations resulted in the seizure of 5 guns one indictment and two pending indictments for felony possession of a firearm The state of Ohio is one of the top ten source states for recovered guns used in crime 3 The ATF s Phoenix Field Division reported that many gun shows attracted large numbers of gang members from Mexico and California They often bought large quantities of assault weapons and smuggled them into Mexico or transported them to California 3 Garen Wintemute a professor at the University of California at Davis calls Arizona and Texas a gunrunner s paradise 14 Regarding the trafficking of firearms from the U S into Mexico the U S Government Accountability Office GAO issued a report in June 2009 that stated While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally smuggled into Mexico in a given year about 87 percent of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced in the last 5 years originated in the United States according to data from Department of Justice s Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives ATF According to U S and Mexican government officials these firearms have been increasingly more powerful and lethal in recent years Many of these firearms come from gun shops and gun shows in Southwest border states 15 The GAO report has been corroborated through other sources William Newell Special Agent in Charge of ATF s Phoenix Field Division testified before a U S House of Representatives subcommittee in March 2009 stating Drug traffickers are able to obtain firearms and ammunition more easily in the U S including sources in the secondary market such as gun shows and flea markets Depending on State law the private sale of firearms at those venues often does not require record keeping or background checks prior to the sale 16 The ATF has also reported that Trends indicate the firearms illegally crossing the U S Mexico border are becoming more powerful ATF has analyzed firearms seizures in Mexico from FY 2005 07 and identified the following weapons most commonly used by drug traffickers 9mm pistols 38 Super pistols 5 7mm pistols 45 caliber pistols AR 15 type rifles and AK 47 type rifles 17 However this is based only on the weapons sent to the ATF to be traced a small portion of all firearms seized by the Mexican government and the extent to which they are representative of all seized firearms is disputed According to Raul Benitez a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico s southern border with Guatemala has long been an entry point for such weapons and today could account for 10 to 15 percent coming through 18 William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott have described Mexico as a virtual arms bazaar where one can purchase a wide variety of military weapons from international sources fragmentation grenades from South Korea AK 47s from China and shoulder fired rocket launchers from Spain Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers 19 In addition they say that Mexican drug cartels have long established drug and gun running ties with Latin American revolutionary movements such as Colombia s FARC 19 Further China has supplied military arms to Latin America and Chinese made assault weapons have been recovered in Mexico according to Amnesty International 19 Finally the Mexican army has seen rampant desertion rates 150 000 in the last six years and many soldiers have taken their weapons home with them including Belgian made M16s 19 It is difficult to legally acquire fully automatic firearms at American gun shows as opposed to the semiautomatic only versions of these firearms that are legal on the U S civilian market due to National Firearms Act NFA citation needed To legally purchase or transfer a fully automatic firearm U S citizens must pay a 200 transfer tax submit a full set of fingerprints on FBI Form FD 258 obtain certification provided by a chief law enforcement officer CLEO the local chief of police sheriff of the county head of the State police or State or local district attorney or prosecutor and obtain final approval from the BATF on a Form 4 transfer of NFA registration to the new owner 20 21 All private citizens must wait typically months before receiving the tax stamp for the 200 tax paid authorizing taking possession of the already paid for fully automatic firearm Until in receipt of the tax stamp the Class III dealer retains control of the fully automatic firearm In addition only fully automatic firearms manufactured before the Firearm Owner s Protection Act of 1986 are permitted to be transferred No fully automatic firearms recovered in Mexico have been traced to the United States 19 See also EditArms trafficking Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act Crossroads of the West Gun Shows Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2009 National Instant Criminal Background Check System Small arms trade Universal background checkReferences Edit a b c Vizzard William J 2012 Gun Shows In Carter Greg Lee ed Guns in American Society G Q Guns in American 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