Mexico-Central America, FFLs per firearm type, 2015-2022

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John Lindsay-Poland submitted the following Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in March 2021: I request records based on a database query containing data on firearms recovered in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and traced by the ATF, since Dec. 31, 2014. From this, I request database query results with the following data:

1. Number of firearms traced, and with the following disaggregations, for each country where firearm was recovered and each year:
   1. state of FFL where firearm was purchased
   2. county of FFL where firearm was purchased
   3. zip code of FFL where firearm was purchased
   4. type of firearm (rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver, other)
   5. caliber of firearm
   6. make of firearm
2. Number of buyers to which recovered firearms were traced as purchases, by year, by country where firearm was recovered, and by county of purchase
3. Number of FFLs to which recovered firearms were traced as purchases, with the following disaggregations for each country and year of purchase:
   1. county and state of purchase
   2. type of firearm (rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver, other)
   3. caliber of firearm

ATF excluded zip codes to which firearms were traced in which there is only one licensed firearms dealer (FFL). According to ATF, this constituted 3.5% of the firearms traced to a U.S. purchaser. No counties or states of purchase of traced firearms were excluded from the dataset. Statistics relating to Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) only include firearms traced to a purchaser.