 The Trace and CBS News surveyed 200 state and local law enforcement agencies and found that more than two-thirds had resold guns between 2006 and 2024. Records from 67 of those agencies showed they had collectively resold more than 87,000 firearms over the past two decades. 87,000. And ATF data shows the number of police guns winding up in crimes is on the rise, with annual cop gun recoveries doubling over a 15-year span.