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This assists ATF in its efforts to investigate and combat the illegal movement of firearms along and across the United States southwest border.

NTCs mission is to conduct firearms tracing to provide investigative leads for federal, state, local and foreign law enforcement agencies.

All firearms traced must have been used, or suspected to have been used, in a crime.

That information can help to link a suspect to a firearm in a criminal investigation and identify potential traffickers.

Firearms tracing can detect in-state, interstate and international patterns in the sources and types of crime guns.

It also traces U.S.-sourced firearms recovered in foreign countries for law enforcement agencies in those countries.

The law enforcement agency submitting the trace request determines the trace classification.

FFLs are required by law to report to NTC any theft or loss of firearms from their inventory within 48 hours of discovery.

If any of these firearms are recovered and traced by law enforcement, NTC helps develop investigative leads.

Under the program, NTC receives and manages hundreds of reports of thefts and losses from interstate shipments, and disseminates the reports for investigation.

Interstate carriers, non-FFLs and consignees can make such reports on a voluntary basis (it is not a mandatory legal requirement).

ATF uses the information to identify firearms trafficking patterns and related crimes.

FFLs that discontinue business are required by law to send all firearms transaction records to NTC who received an average of 5 million out-of-business records per month.

These records have proved pivotal in other criminal investigations.

These reports, when cross-referenced with crime gun trace information, serve as an important indicator in the detection of illegal firearms trafficking.

They also allow successful tracing of older firearms that have re-entered the retail market.

The data remains the property of the FFL and is not housed at ATF.

At the same time, this program benefits NTC by providing immediate access to a participants firearm data on a 247 basis, thereby allowing for operations to continue outside of normal business hours and leading to improved response times in completing firearms trace requests for law enforcement agencies engaged in criminal investigations.

The FFLs who receive Demand Letter 1 are required to send ATF their AD records for the past three years, and to continue to send the records on a monthly basis until told otherwise.

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The affected FFLs are required to submit limited information regarding used guns acquired the previous year, including the manufacturerimporter, model, caliber or gauge and serial number along with the acquisition date.

The FFL is required to submit this information quarterly and until informed otherwise.

Without such information, ATF would not be able to link the secondary market firearm to the dealer.

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