A two-year investigation with KCAL News and partners Trace and Reveal showed that out of the 52,000 guns sold across the country by police agencies, many showed up at crime scenes over a 16-year period. Gun buy-back programs allow law enforcement agencies, like the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, to pull weapons from the market but they could also lead to lethal results.
'How did their firearms get on the streets?' Sheriff Jeff Dirkse of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said they use one dealer when selling their guns, called LC Action Police Supply. 'A pistol, shotgun or rifle all goes to that one dealer over in San Jose,' he told KCAL News. Records from the Department of Justice show LC Action has been cited at least 14 times from 2015 to 2018 for things like failure to record all required information NICS/DROS checks.