- Operates 24 hours, 7 days a week (excluding federal holidays).
- Records and transfers daily firearm trace data to the National Tracing Center.
- Conducts daily analysis of trace data to identify gun traffickers.
- Disseminates investigative leads.
- Coordinates with the HIDTA - RIC to identify armed drug traffickers and their sources of crime guns.
- Answers questions about firearms.
- Responds to crime scenes.
Every recovered crime gun is a piece of a larger puzzle. When fully tied together, the puzzle provides information about armed criminals and how they are acquiring their crime guns.
If a priority of your organization is to deny criminals access to firearms and imprison violent offenders, please consider including the Regional Crime Gun Center as part of your violence reduction strategy.
The entire project depends on a collaborative partnership between your agency and ATF.
Certain information surrounding recovered crime guns must be collected and analyzed.
Every recovered crime gun must be traced ...
The ATF Crime Gun Center has direct access to numerous databases and intelligence resources, as well as access via established relations with other intelligence units.
Direct access includes the following:
- Firearms mapping
- ORACLE Discoverer
- Online Lead
- Firearms Tracing System
- Suspect Gun Database
- Stolen Firearms Database
- TECS
- NCIC
- NYSPIN
The ATF CGC also has access to the resources of the HIDTA Regional Intelligence Center and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Intelligence Division.
ATF personnel are available to provide law enforcement agencies with a tour and demonstration of the capabilities of the ATF Crime Gun Center.
Should you decide to participate in this project, ATF can also provide assistance in customizing a series of protocols so your agency can make the most effective and efficient use of the capabilities of the ATF CGC.
A telephone call to the ATF CGC is all that is needed in order to schedule a visit.
For further information, please contact the Supervisory Special Agent, New York/New Jersey ATF Crime Gun Center at (718) 650-4070, FAX: (718) 650-4071.
"One stop shopping for information about crime guns and the criminal behind the gun."
"The right people together with the right expertise and technology process critical information and turn it into action to reduce violent crime."