Map of Guns recovered in Caribbean and traced to U.S. Purchases, by zip code, 2015-July 2024
This map shows the number of firearms that were recovered in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador from 2015 through 2022 and traced to a purchase in the United States, by number of firearms in zip code of purchase. Move around the map or zoom in to an area of interest, or click on orange circles for popups with more numbers of firearms traced for each country. Click on the double arrow in the upper left for a legend.
The data for this map was obtained from ATF in December 2024 through a Freedom of Information Act request that resulted in tracing data on firearms recovered in six Caribbean countries and “Time-to-Crime” data for firearms recovered in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.