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Data
More than 130,000 sellers weren’t visited at all.
Law Enforcement
Tracking a firearm's chain of custody is standard operating procedure for law enforcement — but the agency responsible for handling requests frequently can't answer essential questions.
The Business of Guns
A dealer in Arkansas gets audited, and national totals for lost or stolen firearms start to seem suspiciously low.
