A nonprofit organization dedicated to gun control advocacy has filed a federal lawsuit against two government agencies for withholding information about the country’s top sellers of firearms used in crimes.
Brady has taken legal action against both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Justice after the agencies declined to provide requested documents and data identifying which gun dealers are responsible for selling the most weapons that end up being used in criminal activities across the United States.
The lawsuit centers on the organizations’ efforts to obtain transparency regarding firearms trafficking patterns and the sources of weapons that law enforcement agencies recover from crime scenes nationwide.
