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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 2, 2016 13:02:04 GMT -5
h/t WRSA... With all the noise about gun control Federal gun convictions are down. trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/409/Ten Year Decline in Federal Weapons ConvictionsThe latest available data from the Justice Department show that during FY 2015 the government reported 6,002 new weapons convictions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is down 5.8 percent from the previous fiscal year when the number of convictions totaled 6,373. The comparisons of the number of defendants convicted for weapons-related offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (see Table 1). Compared to five years ago when there were 7,101 weapons convictions, the number of FY 2015 convictions of this type is down 15.5 percent. Convictions over the past year are lower than they were ten years ago. Overall, the data show that convictions of this type are down 34.8 percent from the level of 9,206 reported in 2005 but up 51.6 percent from the level of 3,958 reported in 1995.
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