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  2. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    [19]: 1223 Prior to 1968, many firearms either did not have a serial number or the serial numbers were not unique and were reused by a manufacturer on multiple firearms. [20] If a recovered weapon has had the serial numbers altered or destroyed, examiners can attempt to recover the original numbers.

  3. Gun serial number - Wikipedia

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    The legal requirement for affixing a serial number to firearms is a relatively recent requirement, and usually applies to firearms manufactured domestically or which are imported. [4] Gun serial numbers are used in gun registration and are usually linked to an owner who is usually required to hold a firearms license. [5]

  4. Automated firearms identification - Wikipedia

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    Automated Firearms Identification has its roots in the United States, the country with the highest per capita firearms ownership. [1] [2] In 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation commissioned Mnemonics Systems Inc. to develop Drugfire, which enabled law enforcement agencies to capture images of cartridge casings into computers, and automate the process of comparing a suspect cartridge ...

  5. Integrated Ballistics Identification System - Wikipedia

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    While some groups have advocated laws requiring all firearms sold be test-fired and registered in such a system, success has been mixed. In 2005, a Maryland State Police report recommended a law requiring all handguns sold in the state be registered in their IBIS system be repealed, as at the cost of $2.5 million the system had not produced ...

  6. Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns ...

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    The justices by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight. Ghost guns, which lack serial numbers, have been turning up at crime scenes with ...

  7. eTrace - Wikipedia

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    The basis for ATF to trace a firearm is Make, Model and Serial Number. Serial Numbers: Serial numbers on guns are not sacrosanct. Recording of serial numbers by ATF, police or dealers is subject to human error, as it is easy to misread a serial (for example: confusing the number 0 with the letter O, 2 with Z, or 5 with S), omit a digit or two ...

  8. How to Find Out Who Owns a Gun Permit: Learn If Your ... - AOL

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    A controversial map recently published by The Journal News newspaper in New York marked one of the latest reactions to the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The map disclosed the ...

  9. National Tracing Center - Wikipedia

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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 ...