Tracing guns is low-tech operation for ATF
(CBS News) MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- When a gun is found at the scene of a shooting, one of the first calls made by police across the country is to the National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W. Va. Here, 350 employees undertake the painstaking process of tracing guns to identify their owners. Charles Houser "There is a perception -- even among law enforcement agencies -- that if you send a serial number from a gun up here, that we plug it into a computer and the name of a gun owner pops out, as if there's a national registration system," says Charles Houser, who has been chief of the center since 2005. "There's no such thing." No such thing, because federal law prohibits the creation of a national database of gun purchases.
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| 0 | "There is a perception -- even among law enforcement agencies -- that if you send a serial number from a gun up here, that we plug it into a computer and the name of a gun owner pops out, as if there's a national registration system," says Charles Houser, who has been chief of the center since 2005. "There's no such thing." |
| 0 | "So for example, these are records that we received as a result of Hurricane Katrina," Houser says. ... |
| 0 | "So for example, these are records that we received as a result of Hurricane Katrina," Houser says. "We had to dry these out in the parking lot." |
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