Gun Control: FY2017 Appropriations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Other Initiatives, William J. Krouse Specialist in Domestic Security and Crime Policy. November 9, 2016.
“This report provides coverage of congressional action on President Barack Obama’s FY2017 budget request for his gun safety initiative. This coverage includes analysis of the ATF Congressional Budget Submission, Fiscal Year 2017, including discussion of selected data trends that could affect ATF workloads during FY2017. One of those data trends, for example, is the number and type of federally licensed gun dealers, manufacturers, and importers, whom ATF monitors periodically for compliance with federal and state law. Another data trend is the significant growth in newly manufactured and imported firearms introduced into the civilian gun stock annually. This data trend suggests that ATF and the FBI could see increased demands on their resources in FY2017. A third data trend is annual change in firearms-related violent crime: criminal homicides, armed robberies, and aggravated assaults. This report also includes a brief discussion about a controversial annual appropriations limitation that Congress has placed on CDC for 20 years that prohibits the use of appropriated funding to “advocate or promote gun control.” The report concludes with an appendix that describes 15 other gun control-related appropriations limitations that Congress has placed on the ATF, FBI, and the Department of State…”