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Alameda County Report: 7.6% of Crime Guns Were Registered to Individual Arrested for Crime

by ECT

A report released this week by the Alameda County District Attorney shows that half the guns used in crimes in Alameda County are not registered in California.

The report shows that of the 862 firearms used in crimes in 2018, only 432 (50%) were registered in California. The remaining 430 firearms were not registered in California. Meanwhile, only 7.6% of crime guns were registered to the individual who was arrested for the crime.

The report covers six years of data on gun use, sales, possession and theft in Alameda County, including detailed statistics of firearm related crimes was released Tuesday by District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley

Here are some of the highlights of the 54-page report:

  • A Team from the District Attorney’s Office looked at every firearm used in a crime that was prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office in 2018. We found it shocking that we had to look up every firearm, one at a time, to determine the history and status of the firearm. The field of review included eight hundred sixty-two (862). Only four hundred thirty-two (432) – 50%, were registered in California. Only sixty-six (66) crime guns (7.6%) were registered to the individual who was arrested for the crime. The remaining four hundred thirty (430) firearms were not registered in California. There was no ability for the Team to determine if any of the eight hundred sixty-two (862) firearms, or even the four hundred thirty-two (432) firearms that were registered to an individual in California, were reported stolen or lost. This gap in data gathering and recordation is unacceptable.
  • In California, there are 3,002 listed Firearms Licensed Dealers and of that, there are only 38 in Alameda County.
  • A 2012 study conducted by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office traced the origin of 179 crime guns. It was found that federal firearms license dealers in Alameda County were the origin for 17% of the guns. Sacramento and Santa Clara Counties were the origin of 4.46% of the guns; Los Angeles County was the origin of 3.91% of the guns; and Contra Costa County was the origin of 2.79%. These counties are referred to as the source counties for the crime guns.
  • According to the California Department of Justice (DOJ), from the years 2012 through 2018, Alameda County law enforcement agencies recovered an annual average of 1,114 crime However, of these only 758 were related to a specific crime.
  • What this data reveals is that Alameda County is consistently above the state average in lost/stolen guns. In the six-year period 2012-2018, Alameda County has an average of 68% of lost/stolen firearms vs. purchased, compared with a state average of 2.33%

For the full report: click here.

 

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5 comments

Ronald O Schuster Aug 22, 2019 - 10:17 am

Shouldn’t the headline read: ” Over 92 Percent of Gun Crimes Committed With Unregistered Firearms”? Biased?

ECT Aug 22, 2019 - 10:25 am

This is a 50 page report… you could create 10,000 headlines.

TSG Aug 22, 2019 - 12:47 pm

So 7.6% of gun crimes can be prevented with gun control.

Harry Palms Aug 22, 2019 - 6:19 pm

7% is a pretty low number.
Job well done by law enforcement stopping the 93% of criminals with illegal guns.

Paul Aug 23, 2019 - 2:40 am

There are soo many other tools besides a gun that are used to commit a crime that focusing on guns seems more of a removal of our 2nd Amendment than anything else.

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