Mayors Against Illegal Guns is pleased that in its omnibus appropriations bill, Congress has rejected a more insidious version of the Tiahrt Amendment that threatened police officers with prison terms for using the data to map illegal gun trafficking. Also, while the coalition is staunchly opposed to the anti-police Tiahrt Amendment provisions that remain, we are pleased that Congress eliminated the Tiahrt Amendment’s geographic restriction on data requests, clarified that local law enforcement may share the data ATF provides to them, and gave ATF wider authority to publish summary reports about trace data. These were all steps in the right direction and are all changes Mayors Against Illegal Guns called for.
Read Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ December 21, 2007 statement on the improvements to FY08 version of the Tiahrt Amendment.
Read more about the FY08 Tiahrt Amendment
In the wake of the ProtectPolice campaign, ATF began releasing trace data reports that it had withheld in the years since the Tiahrt Amendment first passed. Click here to see the ATF reports.
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Patricia Tucker's husband, Mark, was killed with an illegal gun. He was an Investigator in the Wake County, NC Sheriff’s office. Read about Patricia’s Story
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