The [ATF’s national tracing] enter receives roughly 1,800 gun trace requests a day from local law enforcement agencies across the country. Their job is critical: take the identifying information they’re given and piece together a weapon’s path, from manufacturer to retailer to buyer. But because of an arcane tracing system and serial understaffing and underfunding, … Read more
By Lee Williams The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has quietly tested every single recovered firearm – even those not used in the commission of crimes – without probable cause or a search warrant for as long as anyone at the department can recall, according to a story published recently by WISHTV.com. Once the firearms were … Read more
The US Senate’s Civilian Disarmament Caucus has just introduced a bill that would, for all intents and purposes, create a national gun registry. They’re just politically savvy enough not to call it that. If approved, the Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act would repeal the following Tiahrt provisions: End the prohibition on ATF from releasing … Read more
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