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News Organizations — Editorial |
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May 1, 2013 |
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Address gun background checks
By Staff
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Recent data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse revealed a couple of interesting things. One — that the district within which Chicago resides ranks last in terms of prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita. And, two — that “nationally federal gun crime prosecutions hit a decade low in 2011 under President Obama, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004.”
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2013
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