The Tracers - An inside look at the Real-Life Database of America's Firearms.

Inside the ATF's National Tracing Center, where law bars a searchable database and workers trace crime guns through mountains of paper records.

A surreal, almost unbelievable glimpse of how America tracks its guns, on paper, by design.

There's no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia,

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