ATF gun recovery and trace data from 2023 shows that Illinois is the state of origin from which the majority of guns are recovered/traced.
This runs counter to the left’s frequent claim that Chicago has a gun problem because other states do not have gun controls as stringent as those in Illinois.
According to the ATF data, 22,973 firearms were recovered or traced in Illinois in 2023. Of those, 9,147 were from Illinois and, in a distant second, 2,796 were from Indiana…