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National Security ATF Special Agent Charles Houser runs the National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W.Va.

The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced

There is one place in the country where a law enforcement agency can trace a gun found at a crime scene back to a buyer: the ATF's National Tracing Center in West Virginia. But the tracing process is usually tedious, involving multiple phone calls and searching, by hand, through paper records.
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