Hundreds of thousands of guns sold in the U.S. vanish because of loose American gun laws. Many reappear in Jamaica, turning its streets into battlefields. nyti.ms/2zmVgfT
Our reporter, @azamsahmed, traced a single gun to 9 homicides in a rural area of Jamaica where violence has spiked in recent years, drawing on court documents, case files, interviews and confidential data from law enforcement officials in both countries nyti.ms/3208trp
@azamsahmed Guns are at the epicenter of that violence. Worldwide, 32% of homicides are committed with firearms. In Jamaica, the figure is higher than 80%. And most of those guns come from the U.S. nyti.ms/3208trp
@azamsahmed While the gun debate in the U.S. focuses almost exclusively on the policies and rights of citizens, there is no such debate in Jamaica. Police, politicians and even gangsters agree: The abundance of guns, typically from the U.S., makes the country deadly. nyti.ms/3208trp
@azamsahmed Read our full story to see how a 9-millimeter Browning handgun traveled from North Carolina, where it was legally purchased in 1991, to the streets of Clarendon, where it became the 8th most-wanted killer in Jamaica nyti.ms/3208trp
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