Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:29 pm
Here is the reality of gun tracing: if police recover a gun at a crime scene, they find out pretty quickly which distributor sold it to which FFL. Finding out who bought it from that FFL will take some time (from hours to weeks), because an agent will have to sit down at that dealer and manually page through 4473s and/or the bound book.
I know that on TV, police can recover a slug and within 15 minutes have a "trace" on to whom the gun was "registered", even though 47 states have no registration. That's tell-a-vision, aka fiction.
Most of the time, tracing is tedious and a waste of time, and dead-ends at the first dealer to sell the gun.
Kevin
I know that on TV, police can recover a slug and within 15 minutes have a "trace" on to whom the gun was "registered", even though 47 states have no registration. That's tell-a-vision, aka fiction.
Most of the time, tracing is tedious and a waste of time, and dead-ends at the first dealer to sell the gun.
Kevin