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The National Tracing Center (NTC) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the sole firearms tracing facility in the United States. It provides information to provide foreign (international), federal, state and local law enforcement agencies with suspects for firearm crime investigations, detect suspected firearms traffickers, and track the intrastate, interstate and ...
As far back as 1992, and as recently as 2009, the Congressional Research Service has warned about the use of statistics from ATF's tracing system. "The ATF tracing system is an operational system designed to help law enforcement agencies identify the ownership path of individual firearms. It was not designed to collect statistics." [17]
In FY07, ATF's National Tracing Center processed over 285,000 trace requests on guns for over 6,000 law enforcement agencies in 50 countries. ATF uses a Web-based system, known as eTrace , that provides law enforcement agencies with the capability to securely and electronically send trace requests, receive trace results, and conduct basic trace ...
Boxes of paper records fill nearly every corridor of the ATF’s National Tracing Center, where agents are struggling to keep up with surging requests from local police.
“ATF completed an urgent trace through ATF’s National Tracing Center based on out of business records from a closed gun dealer,” the ATF said in a statement Sunday. “Results were provided ...
He also expressed no qualms with working with the ATF to track down crime guns. ... It’s priority No. 1 when the tracing center calls.” ... Contact him at npenz@usatoday.com or @npenzenstadler ...
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) operates a number of field divisions within the United States. The following list gives the locations of these offices. The following list gives the locations of these offices.
More than 1,800 trace requests arrive daily. Others feed those documents through rapidly whirring scanners, and still others call gun makers and dealers, digging up leads for thousands of law ...