“Even before the budget cut, ATF was too underfunded to do its job adequately. The agency aims to inspect each licensed gun dealer every three years. But in 2022, it inspected about 7,300 of them, only 9% of all gun dealers. At that rate, it would take 10 years to inspect them all. This lax oversight is a reason that in 2022 alone, a total of 17,413 guns simply went missing — "lost or stolen" from federally licensed gun dealers, according to the agency. But guns are valuable and do not just vanish; it's likely many were sold out the backdoor and used to commit crimes.”

Furthermore, reread that part about gun death rates in states with weak gun laws compared to those with strong ones. Seems to me the strong gun law states must be doing a pretty good job of enforcing their strong laws. But feel free to keep making baseless excuses for perpetuating the gun madness in this country.