US gun trail grows in T&T: Nearly three-quarters of traces now linked to America

Near­ly three out of every four firearms re­cov­ered in Trinidad and To­ba­go and sub­mit­ted to US au­thor­i­ties for trac­ing in 2025 were linked to the US firearms mar­ket, a sharp in­crease from just over half in 2020.

Of the 279 firearms re­cov­ered in T&T and sub­mit­ted to the US Bu­reau of Al­co­hol, To­bac­co, Firearms and Ex­plo­sives (ATF) for trac­ing last year, 204 were iden­ti­fied as US-sourced, ac­count­ing for 73.1 per cent.

The fig­ure formed part of a six-year Guardian Me­dia ex­am­i­na­tion of ATF da­ta, which showed that 1,116 of the 1,777 firearms re­cov­ered in T&T and sub­mit­ted to the agency for trac­ing be­tween 2020 and 2025 were US-sourced.