Tuesday, August 18, 7:00 p.m. ET
The Jewish Gun Violence Prevention Roundtable presents
Gun Trafficking: What Is It, How Does it Fuel Violence, and How Can it be Prevented?
Webinar Overview
Gun trafficking fuels community violence. Between 2017 and 2021, nearly 230,000 trafficked firearms were linked to almost 19% of aggravated assaults and 10% of homicides in the United States. Nearly 90% of trafficked guns end up in the hands of dangerous individuals who cannot legally possess or purchase firearms. The vast majority of trafficked guns begin as part of the inventory of a licensed gun dealer. When dealers fail to recognize the telltale signs of suspicious sales that indicate trafficking, they become suppliers of trafficked guns. Despite contributing to violence nationwide, gun trafficking receives far less public coverage than other aspects of gun violence.
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Panelist Bios:
Marianna Mitchem is the Senior Firearms Industry Advisor at Everytown for Gun Safety. Prior to her tenure at Everytown, Mitchem was an Industry Operations Investigator for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for more than 20 years. Most recently she held the position of Associate Assistant Director of Field Operations. In this capacity, Mitchem directed all regulatory operations at the ATF, conceptualized and executed the ATF's crime gun intelligence analytics program, and spearheaded the comprehensive trafficking research documented in the National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment.
Daniel Webster is Bloomberg Professor of American Health and Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has published widely on the impacts of gun policies on homicides, suicides, and gun trafficking and led studies of community violence intervention programs and intimate partner violence. He is the lead editor and contributor to Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 and to the Council on Criminal Justice in 2022. Dr. Webster’s research has informed policies to reduce gun violence at the local, state, and federal level.
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