The budget for crime gun tracing has decreased despite a growing number of crime guns traced

Percentage change since 2013 in Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives budget for crime gun tracing and the number of crime guns traced, fiscal years 2014–2020

Source: Center for American Progress analysis of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, "Congressional Budget Submission: Fiscal Year 2015," available at https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/09/05/atf-justification.pdf (last accessed September 2020); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Exploives, "Congressional Budget Submission: Fiscal Year 2016," available at https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/pages/attachments/2015/02/02/26._bureau_of_alcohol_tobacco_firearms_and_explosives_atf.pdf (last accessed September 2020); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, "Congressional Budget Submission: Fiscal Year 2017," available at https://www.justice.gov/jmd/file/821361/download (last accessed September 2020); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, "Congression Budget Submission: Fiscal Year 2018," available at https://www.justice.gov/file/968946/download (last accessed September 2020); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, "Congressional Budget Submission: Fiscal Year 2020," available at https://www.justice.gov/file/968946/download (last accessed September 2020); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, "Firearms Trace Data," available at https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics (last accessed September 2020).