Groups report highlights how guns in the US get from legitimate stores to crime scenes
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News Summary
- Everytown for Gun Safety used court records to trace more than 250 guns bought at nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors chain stores that had been trafficked over three years.
- The group’s new report illuminates a key way that guns go from legitimate store shelves to crime scenes: people, known as straw purchasers, buy weapons legally and resell them on the black market.
- Academy Sports has not been accused of wrongdoing, and the guns trafficked north are a tiny slice of its overall sales.
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