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The first and most common reason we see the ATF attempting to question a person, seemingly at random, is firearm tracing. When you buy a firearm from an FFL and it later leaves your inventory, there may not be a record.

By examining unique striations impressed into a bullet from the barrel of a gun, expended ammunition can be linked back to a specific weapon. These striations are due to the rifling inside the barrels of firearms. Rifling spins the bullet when it is fired out of the barrel to improve precision.

The Demand 2 Program requires FFLs with 25 or more traces, with a time to crime of 3 years or less in a calendar year, to submit an annual report followed by quarterly reports of used firearms acquired by the FFL.

In order to match an evidence bullet to the firearm that discharged it, the submitted firearm must be test fired into a water tank to produce fired specimen bullet and cartridge cases for comparison with the evidence ammunition components.

As the bullet is propelled through the barrel, the grooves exert a rotational force on the metal surface that's so strong it leaves marks. Under a microscope, these striae are all distinctive and different ? and they will correspond to the grooves inside the barrel of the gun that fired the bullet.

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For roughly a century, forensic ballistics experts have been comparing bullets and cartridge cases by visually examining them under a split-screen microscope. After comparing the bullets, the examiner can offer an expert opinion as to whether they match but cannot express the strength of the evidence numerically.