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Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were
recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the
government from 2016 to 2020.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...ghost-gun-rule
I'm having a very difficult time believing that statement.
Anyone have any corroborating sources... one way or other ?
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I don't have any statistics, and I wouldn't know where to look for them. But let's look at it:
2016 to 2020 -- I'm going to take that as including five years of statistics. So 24,000 / 5 = 4,800 per year.
If we include Washington, DC, as a "state, we have 51 state-level jurisdictions. 4,800 / 51 ==> 94 "ghost" guns per state, per year. That's less than 2 per week per state. That's conceivable, IMHO. It's also hardly the tsunami the anti-gun folks are making it out to be.