Editorial: The gun crime no one counts

An editorial from the Los Angeles Times:

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Gun thefts feed violent crime, but inane federal laws make it hard to monitor and confront the problem.

American gun owners reported losing more than 237,000 firearms to thieves last year, according to federal stolen-property statistics obtained by The Trace, a nonprofit journalism site. That's a whopping 68 percent increase over a decade earlier. Yet the key word in that sentence is "reported," because an unknown number of gun owners never inform