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Program Assessment
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Program
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Firearms Programs -- Integrated Violence Reduction Strategy
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reduces violent firearms crime by enforcing Federal firearms laws and regulations. ATF's Integrated Violence Reduction Strategy removes violent offenders from communities, stops illegal firearms trafficking, and keeps prohibited persons from possessing firearms.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
PERFORMING Adequate
This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
- The program employs its Integrated Violence Reduction Strategy (IVRS), an overarching, integrated set of programs to effectively help enforce firearms laws, remove violent offenders from communities, stop illegal firearms trafficking, keep prohibited persons from possessing firearms, and pursue outreach and prevention efforts.
- The program and its partner law enforcement agencies combine their expertise and assets, within their defined jurisdictions, to apply a comprehensive strategy to fight violent crime.
- The program needs to establish ambitious annual measures for its performance goals and ensure that relevant, independent evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the overall effectiveness of the program.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Working to ensure that appropriate penalties and sanctions are available and assessed for Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) found to be in violation of Federal firearms laws.
- Developing ambitious targets for annual performance measures associated with the firearms program.
- Developing an evaluation strategy that will subject the program to external, rigorous and thorough, regularly scheduled independent evaluations at the national program level.
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