Correlation ≠ Causation

ATF helps drive crime down. New national data shows gun crime is going down. Reports of gun related incidents dropped 12% last year, and ATF’s tools for tracing and analyzing crime guns played a major part in that progress. [More]

Flesh that out for us. How does analyzing after the fact have a measurable impact on preventing “gun-related incidents”?

Plowshare Transaction Record

The event is designed as a drive-thru for the safety of participants and organizers. Individuals are instructed to place their unloaded firearms in the trunk of their vehicles before arriving. Upon reaching the event area, organizers will collect the weapons directly from the cars. [More]

So every transfer, first to the organizers and then to the blacksmith, will go through NICS? And he’ll know how to do it “legally”? And they’ll do a trace to make sure they’re not acting as a fence for stolen guns?

[Via Steve T]