Women Against Gun Violence is working to remove the Tiahrt amendments from the budget of the Department of Justice.

The Tiahrt amendment binds the hands of local and state law enforcement and endangers law abiding citizens while protecting criminals.  Gun trace data shows that a majority of crime guns come from a very small percentage of dealers.  These dealers make it their business to break regulations and turn a blind eye to the law in pursuit of an extra dollar.

The guns sold by these criminal dealers are used to hurt the innocent throughout California and all of America.  Burglars, murderers and rapists are enabled by these dealers - not the law abiding gun owners and dealers that the Tiahrt amendment claims to protect.  By prohibiting the sharing of gun trace information between federal and state law enforcement agencies the amendment allows criminal dealers to operate with effective impunity.  State and local law enforcement need gun trace data to shutdown these criminal dealers.