![](https://i.imgur.com/CLvY2jA.png")
13-08-2021, 10:17 AM
Posting this older news because of another thread here: https://sgtalk.net/thread-2398.html
By Jane Bradley
Published Aug. 12, 2020
Updated July 22, 2021
NORTHAMPTON, England — Josh Bains was 28 when he was killed after an argument over a drug debt of about $50 just a few miles from the English village where he grew up — with a gun that had traveled thousands of miles from America.
His was one of a rising number of gun deaths in recent years that have the British authorities worried about an expanding smuggling pipeline from the United States. The gun used to kill Mr. Bains in October 2018 — a Taurus Model 85 — is banned outright in Britain.
“I think Americans wouldn’t believe that something that they produce could affect people like us,” said Clare Bains, who was Mr. Bains’s stepmother. “If there weren’t all these guns, they wouldn’t be seeping out of America all over the world.”
......
“A major Trump administration goal is to globalize the firearms trade and facilitate exports, and if you’re facilitating legal exports it’s almost inevitable that there will be an illegal diversion of weapons into criminal markets in other countries,” said Aaron Karp, a senior consultant for the Small Arms Survey in Geneva and a lecturer at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
The United States is one of the biggest legal exporters of firearms in the world, but hundreds of thousands of guns also illegally leak out of the country and fuel homicides, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
......
the number of illegal guns in circulation is growing. In the last year alone, gun seizures by Britain’s national policing body, the National Crime Agency, more than doubled, and firearm offenses have soared by 38 percent since 2015. The authorities worry that violence could surge if criminal groups switch from knives to guns. A BBC investigation linked a single firearm to 11 different gunmen and multiple murders over a six-year period.
“The homicide rate is already a problem without easy access to guns,” said Robert McLean, a researcher on organized crime in Britain based at the University of the West of Scotland. “Once in circulation, a single firearm can move around criminal networks and can be used in a number of shootings and killings.”
......
At least 782 American guns have been discovered by the police since 2017
......
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world...us-uk.html
By Jane Bradley
Published Aug. 12, 2020
Updated July 22, 2021
NORTHAMPTON, England — Josh Bains was 28 when he was killed after an argument over a drug debt of about $50 just a few miles from the English village where he grew up — with a gun that had traveled thousands of miles from America.
His was one of a rising number of gun deaths in recent years that have the British authorities worried about an expanding smuggling pipeline from the United States. The gun used to kill Mr. Bains in October 2018 — a Taurus Model 85 — is banned outright in Britain.
“I think Americans wouldn’t believe that something that they produce could affect people like us,” said Clare Bains, who was Mr. Bains’s stepmother. “If there weren’t all these guns, they wouldn’t be seeping out of America all over the world.”
......
“A major Trump administration goal is to globalize the firearms trade and facilitate exports, and if you’re facilitating legal exports it’s almost inevitable that there will be an illegal diversion of weapons into criminal markets in other countries,” said Aaron Karp, a senior consultant for the Small Arms Survey in Geneva and a lecturer at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
The United States is one of the biggest legal exporters of firearms in the world, but hundreds of thousands of guns also illegally leak out of the country and fuel homicides, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
......
the number of illegal guns in circulation is growing. In the last year alone, gun seizures by Britain’s national policing body, the National Crime Agency, more than doubled, and firearm offenses have soared by 38 percent since 2015. The authorities worry that violence could surge if criminal groups switch from knives to guns. A BBC investigation linked a single firearm to 11 different gunmen and multiple murders over a six-year period.
“The homicide rate is already a problem without easy access to guns,” said Robert McLean, a researcher on organized crime in Britain based at the University of the West of Scotland. “Once in circulation, a single firearm can move around criminal networks and can be used in a number of shootings and killings.”
......
At least 782 American guns have been discovered by the police since 2017
......
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world...us-uk.html
