By JIMMY LAWTON

About 470 guns used in crimes were recovered by law enforcement agencies in St. Lawrence County between 2010 and 2015, a report from the State Attorney General shows.

Eric Schneiderman released the report Tuesday to highlight a perceived problem that guns in New York used in crimes largely come from out of state.

In St. Lawrence County the report shows that about 57 percent of the 468 recovered guns used in crimes originally came from outside of New York State. The report does show that more guns recovered in New York were purchased in New York than any other state. That’s 43 percent coming from within the state compared to 11 percent coming form Connecticut, which was the second largest contributing state.

While 15 percent of all guns recovered in St. Lawrence County came from an unknown location the report lumps those guns in with the out of state numbers.

The 468 totals include 250 rifles, about half of which originated out of state, 101 shotguns, with just less than half originating from out of state; 69 hand guns, with about 58 coming from out of state; and 45 revolvers with about 35 coming from out of state.

Statewide law enforcement agencies recovered 53,915 guns used in crimes with about 34,344, or 75 percent of the firearms that could be traced, originally bought outside of the state, the report shows.

Schniederman and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are using the data as a rallying cry for stricter federal and state gun trafficking legislation.

Data from Schniederman’s report can be found at https://targettrafficking.ag.ny.gov/tool/

The website allows one to navigate the data and look at individual communities.

In a released statement Gillibrand included a New York Times article that included a counter point from John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who said the data did not necessarily highlight a problem.

Lott, who is a gun rights advocate, was quoted in the New York Times article as saying: “That’s like finding out a lot of cars in New York come from another state,” he said.

“Pick a state in the South — you’ll find a lot of guns from those states come from out of state originally. Products move around.”

See the full New York Times article at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/report-highlights-how-guns-flow-into-new-york-from-states-with-weaker-laws.html