Media Matters for America
During an appearance on NRA News, Jim Wallace, the executive director
of Gun Owners' Action League, the state firearms association of
Massachusetts, suggested that strict gun laws did nothing to curb gun
violence in his home state of Massachusetts. Wallace, who is also acandidate in
this year's National Rifle Association Board of Directors elections,
went on to deny that crime guns are trafficked into Massachusetts
from states with weaker laws.
According to trace data
from 2011, 669 of the 1,020 firearms for which ATF was able to
determine a source state came from outside of Massachusetts. The top
four trafficking states -- New Hampshire, Maine, Georgia and
Florida -- accounted for 328 weapons. All four of those states also
received extremely low marks in the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence's annual ranking of state gun laws, each receiving less than 10 points out
of a possible score of 100. In fact, 11 of the top 15 crime gun source
states for Massachusetts received a score of 16 or less on the Brady
Campaign scorecard.
