From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittroef. This is the Daily.

Across America, hundreds of towns and cities are trying to get guns off the streets

by turning them over to businesses that offer to destroy them. But a New York Times investigation found

that something very different is happening. Today my colleague Mike

McIntyre on the unintended consequences of efforts by local officials

to rid their communities of guns. It's Tuesday, January 9th.

It's Tuesday, January 9th. Mike, you cover guns in America where gun possession is a uniquely protected right,

which means that getting guns out of circulation is an uphill battle.

And I understand you've been looking into that.

Tell me about your reporting.

Yeah, we've been looking a lot at the issues of gun violence, gun culture, gun commerce in the United States because with more than 400 million firearms in the civilian population continues to be a major issue of public debate and a lot of that debate has

centered around the easy accessibility of guns, how simple it is to be able to

purchase one, the types of firepower involved, and the havoc that they can

wreak. I mean, gun violence actually surpassed car crashes recently in terms of the most common

cause of death for children and adolescents.

Wow.

More than half of the gun violence related deaths

are suicides.

So there's every reason to be looking at the scourge of gun violence,

but there's also this other side of it that doesn't get a lot of attention,

which is, you know, what happens to guns that nobody wants anymore? And so we started taking a look at what that process looks like and

discover that it's actually not quite as simple as you might think.

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