You might assume U.S. gun crimes are solved by police entering a weapon’s serial number into a computing system to find a perpetrator. Due to NRA lobbying, the data is instead stored among paper records of the low-tech, underfunded National Tracing Center [trib.al]
The U.S. Gun Tracing Center
The hallways were lined with so many boxes of paper records it violated the building code.
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