{"id":5039,"date":"2024-11-15T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/thousands-of-guns-recovered-from-caribbean-crime-scenes-came-from-the-us-says-government-report\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:01:03","slug":"thousands-of-guns-recovered-from-caribbean-crime-scenes-came-from-the-us-says-government-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/thousands-of-guns-recovered-from-caribbean-crime-scenes-came-from-the-us-says-government-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of guns recovered from Caribbean crime scenes came from the US, says government report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered in several Caribbean nations with high crime rates were manufactured in the US, according to the US\u2019s Government Accountability Office (GAO).    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Almost 5,400 firearms recovered from crime scenes from 2018 to 2022 in several Caribbean nations \u2013 including Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 can be sourced back to the US, the GAO said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The GAO said they analyzed data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to determine that 88 percent of the recovered and traced firearms in the 25 Caribbean countries they reviewed were handguns.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Despite the lack of firearm manufacturing in the Caribbean, Haiti in particular has seen a dramatic escalation in gang-related violence in recent months, with most of the firepower used by the criminals originating in the US, the report said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            To counter illicit gun trafficking, the US funds trainings and programs through a security cooperation partnership with thirteen Caribbean countries to \u201cuncover criminal networks responsible for trafficking firearms.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            However, the GAO report notes that the US could improve results from the partnership by establishing \u201cspecific indicators for its goal of reducing illicit firearms trafficking.\u201d    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered in several Caribbean nations with high crime rates were manufactured in the US, according to the US\u2019s Government Accountability Office (GAO). Almost 5,400 firearms recovered from crime scenes from 2018 to 2022 in several Caribbean nations \u2013 including Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 can be sourced back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}