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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 ...
The bureau is also involved in programs aimed at reducing gun violence in the United States, by targeting and arresting violent offenders who unlawfully possess firearms. ATF was also involved with the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, which expanded tracing of firearms recovered by law enforcement and the ongoing Comprehensive Crime Gun ...
These are registration records which include name and address, make, model, serial and caliber of the firearm(s), as well as data from the 4473 form - in digital or image format. In March, 2010, ATF reported receiving several hundred million records since 1968. [22] 5. Theft Guns. Firearms reported as stolen to ATF. Contained 330,000 records in ...
Since the law gives the ATF the power to regulate firearms and not stuff that, like much of the plumbing section of a hardware store, might be turned into firearms with work, O'Connor found the ...
Gun safety is the study and practice of managing risk when using, transporting, storing and disposing of firearms, airguns and ammunition in order to avoid injury, illness or death. Gun safety includes the training of users, the design of firearms, as well as the formal and informal regulation of gun production, distribution, and usage. [1]
A few states, e.g., South Carolina, recognize the safety and use-of-force training given to military personnel as acceptable in lieu of formal civilian training certification. Such states will ask for a military ID (South Carolina) for active persons or DD214 for honorably discharged persons. These few states will commonly request a copy of the ...
Instagram video: The ATF changed regulations to allow ‘illegal immigrants’ to acquire firearms Our rating: False. A Dec. 22, 2023, Instagram video shows a woman speaking about supposed changes ...
Named after former Rep. Todd Tiahrt R-Kansas, the 2003 law prohibits the ATF from releasing the trace data to researchers, members of the public or even city and state officials not directly ...