The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives' National Tracing Center fields hundreds of thousands of firearms trace requests each year. And each trace is done by hand.
No super computer spits out answers — no such database even exists — so the center's 375 ATF employees and contractors make calls and send emails to find trace the origin of each firearm.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives' National Tracing Center fields hundreds of thousands of firearms trace requests each year. And each trace is done by hand.
No super computer spits out answers — no such database even exists — so the center's 375 ATF employees and contractors make calls and send emails to find trace the origin of each firearm.
