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Originally Answered: How do you trace aserialnumber for a gun and/or firearm?Youdon't. The BATFE does through the National Tracing Centeronrequest of a legitimate trace request from law enforcement.Second,call the wholesaler with the serial number andguninformation and ask them who they sent itto.
Subsequently, one may also ask, can you look up a gun serial number?
In many cases, the serial number will be notedinthe owner's manual. If you don't have the owner'smanualyou will need to locate the serialnumber onthe body of the gun. The serial numberis usuallylocated on the handle or inside the gun, but thisdoes varyfrom manufacturer to manufacturer.
Similarly, can guns be traced?
An investigating officer submits a tracerequest(either by email, fax, or through the ATF's eTrace system)to theNational Tracing Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.TheATF is the only agency allowed to perform gun traces.Overthe past decade, the number of gun traces requested bylawenforcement has exploded.
Sixty-five percent of the time, workers atthetracing center are able to successfully traceagun used in a crime back to the original purchaser.Aroutine trace takes about a week, but they canturnan “urgent” around in 24 hours.