SABT 2 J National Tracing Center Flashcards
The tracking of a FA from a dealer in a effort to ID the first unlicensed purchaser
-purpose= link a suspect to a FA in a criminal inv., ID circumstantial witness and direct Form 4473 evidence
What is FA tracing
1 ID the 3 branches of the National Tracing Center Div and the function of each branch.
- FA Tracing Branch= FA tracing, manufacturing Group, FA Distribution Group, Trace Quality Control, International Tracing Group, Records Certification 1972 started, 1988 Fa tracing center was worn FTS=
- LEO Support Branch-LESB programs= stolen FA, suspect gun program, obliterated serial #, records search request, info programs and analysis
- Industry Records Branch Programs, services and Functions= Access 2000, out of business Records ctr, Research group, Demand Letter Program, Multiple sales
Benefits of comprehensive FA tracing
Tracing of every crime gun recovered within a geographic area or specific LEO jurisdiction
OBLITERATED SERIAL NUMBER
- mission to assist LEO agencies in recreating the full serial number and providing successful traces of these FA to develop investigative leads and ID FA trafficking patterns where they exist
- submit Fa with obliterated serial numbers if you have possessor, assoc. or recovery location info
- Submit FA with partial serial numb due to the poss of multi sale sequential matching
- Explain the circumstance of the Fa with an obliterated serial number in the additional info section
Stolen FA Program
-License have 48 hours to report left loss
2 ATF agents must initiate inv when theft total 10 or more FA (atf 3310.4b)
3 ATF jurisdiction found in USC 922 i j and u and 923 g 6
-FFL Theft -Theft burglary,larceny, robbery
1 information entered into FTS and NCIC
2 Missing Inventory Info entered into FTS only
(B) Interstate theft-voluntary reporting entered int FTS and NCIC
(C) Military theft-MEM of understanding with Dept of Defence
(D) Special Projects FA list n disaster (wld trade center attacks)
(E) Stolen FA recoveries- Notifications made to ATF office where theft occurred and to ATF office where recovery occurred
Suspect Gun Data Base
-A suspect Gun is a FA that has not been recovered by LEO but is suspected to be involved in criminal activity
- Large quantities of FA purchased by individuals with not apparent lawful purpose
- FA suspected in trafficking
- FA of dealers with improper record keeping
- FA purchased by individuals suspected of being straw purchasers
eTrace program
- Provides the LEO community with the ability to electronically exchange Fa trace related info with the ATF, national Tracing Ctr in a secure web based environment.
- Ava to any LE Agency regardless of location, size or ava resources
- Offiers a high degree of ava (24/7) with no incurred costs or software requirements
- Required only a connection to the internet and entry into a standard mem of understanding with ATF
- Primary purpose of the MOU is to establish an agency POC. The designated PIC essentially serves as the gatekeeper to eTrace by maintaining and providing ATF with a list of agency approvers users
- Currently utilized by more than 10,000 individuals representing over 1,940 different LE Agencies throughout the US and abroad
- Provide the LEO community with a user friendly interface to submit, manage and retrieve FA trace related data
- Increase the percentage of recovered crime guns traced
- increased the quality of the incoming trace data
- Decreased the turn around time for processing traces.
2 ID the FA tracing process
- Gun recovered by LEO
- Recovering Agency submits Trace Request
- NTC creates an ID in FTS/Trace initiated,
- Prior Traces
- Suspect Gun
- Demand Program
- FFL interstate Theft
- Multiple sale check
- Trace processed
- Trace result sent to requestor
Access 2000 Program
- More efficient tracing of FA, 24/7 access to FFL records which speeds the tracing process
- Cost benefit to the industry
- ATF provides the necessary hardware and software to the industry
- Access partners upload FA disposition information to ATF servers
out of Business Records Program
- The NTC is the central repository for the records submitted by all Fed licensed FA dealers who have discontinued business as require by the GUN Control Act
- These out of business records exist nowhere else and are often utilized to facilitate the FA tracing process as well as to respond to Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request
Demand Letter Program
emanated from ATF yr 2000 publication commerce in FA in the United States which outlined certain specific hindrances to FA tracing
- Hindrance to tracing include - Non responsible dealers - Used secondhand FA - unreported FA stolen while in shipment - FA with obliterated serial numbers - Incomplete FA info - out of business records - Untraceable pre 1968 FA
Demand Letter 2
secondary market sales
-Demand 2 FFLs are required to submit info showing any FA that was purchased from someone other than another FFL the yr previously, and quarterly reports thereafter until otherwise notified. The info required is manufacturer and importer, model,type, caliber, serial number, and date of acquisition. WO this info, ATF would not be able to link the secondary market FA to the dealer.
3 ID the purpose of the following programs A-Obliterated Serial Number Program B- Stolen FA Program C- Suspect Gun Data Base D- eTrace Program E- Access 2000 Program F- out of Business Records Program G- Demand Letter Program H- Multiple Sales
A B C D E F G H
b Demand Letter Program 1
- Notification to appro FD, Vertification that FFL is no the subject of an open inv., certified letter is sent to the FFL advising they must provide the NCT with complete identification and disposition info on every FA that was received by them and sold in the receding 3 yrs
- Provision of info must continue on a quaterly basis until ATF determines that the FFL has become cooperative
Multiple Sales Report
- sent each day by email
- report contains all multiple handgun sales reports entered by the NTC in the preceding 24 hours, holiday or weekend
- Includes matches, by last name and DOB, with any prior multiple sale or traces
