Iowa Profile
of Activity
Personnel
and Facilities:
ATF has an office located in Des Moines, Iowa and reports to the Kansas
City Field Division.
ATF
Industry Operations (IO) has inspectors assigned to the satellite
office in Des Moines. These inspectors report to the St. Louis,
Mo. Area Supervisor, who in turn reports to the Kansas City Field
Division Office.
ATF
Task Forces & Local Law Enforcement Support Initiatives:
ATF/CPD Gun Task Force - Operation Neighborhood is centered in the
"Quad Cities" of Rockford, Moline, East Moline, and Davenport.
Participants include ATF, FBI, IRS, and several local, county and
State police officers. The task force focuses on criminal activities
committed by street gangs involving firearms and narcotics trafficking.
Grim
Reapers OMO - This multi-state task force initiative includes ATF
special agents and state police officers from the states of Iowa,
Indiana and Illinois.
ATF
actively participates in the DEA Task Force which focuses on drug
trafficking in the State. Located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, members
of this task force conduct investigations into primary Federal drug
violations along with Federal firearms violations.
Sioux
City Tracing Project: Both ATF inspectors and special agents are currently
working with the Sioux City Police Department on the tracing of all
firearms received in crimes by the department.
Revenue
Protection and Public Safety Activities:
ATF inspectors conduct inspections of businesses that produce or import
alcohol, tobacco products or firearms to ensure excise taxes are collected.
ATF has a memorandum of understanding with the State of Iowa to ensure
needed tax information is shared. In FY-97, $34 million in Federal
excise taxes were collected by ATF in the State of Iowa.
ATF
special agents and inspectors work with state and other authorities
in investigations of instances where alcohol and tobacco are diverted
from legal to illegal channels in evasion of Federal and state law.
ATF
inspectors conduct inspections of Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs)
to ensure compliance with Federal law, and to ensure that firearms
records are maintained in a manner that enables crime guns to be traced.
As of 10/1/998, there were 105,536 FFLs nationwide, and 1, 668 in
Iowa.
ATF
inspectors conduct safety and compliance inspections at locations
where explosives are produced, imported, sold and stored. Records
are examined to ensure proper accounting of explosives, and explosives
magazines are inspected to ensure explosives are safely and properly
stored. As of 10/1/98, there were 10,716 explosives licensees/permittees
nationwide, and 215 in Iowa.
ATF
provides to State Fire Marshals lists of locations where explosives
are stored. Referrals of information are made to fire marshals
or other officials when it appears state violations are present.
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