The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives must turn over statistical data from its Firearms Tracing System database as part of a FOIA request, a federal court ruled Aug. 19.
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund requested data on firearms used in suicides or attempted suicides that were recovered by law enforcement and traced by the ATF under the Freedom of Information Act.
Neither of the ATF’s arguments against disclosure of the records holds water, Judge Alison J. Nathan wrote for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The database houses every law-enforcement-requested record of ...
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