But Tiahrt . . .
Police in Latin America will soon have access to a Spanish version of a U.S. gun-tracking system that could widen efforts to hunt down crime suspects and weapons traffickers.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said Wednesday that it is about to begin testing a Spanish-language version of eTrace, the computer system that helps police trace who buys U.S. firearms.
“This is to allow the infrastructure to make it easier for law enforcement throughout Latin America to track the firearms in their own language,” said Scot Thomasson, an ATF spokesman.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Sweet. We are going to export our buggy inaccurate database and software down south.
Lets hope the one they institute is as good as the one the ATF uses to track Class three weapons
January 7th, 2010 at 11:07 am
And you thought they didn’t keep those records.
They are coming…..cover your tracks deep or you will be disarmed.
January 7th, 2010 at 11:41 am
And they are doing this with our tax dollars. Jack.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Can anyone say INTERPOL?? With the recent change in policy for Interpol to operate freely and PRIVATELY inside of our borders this is a defacto gestapo method of internationalizing gun control. while we have our own laws inside the country, Mexico w/ a lil help from Interpol and the current administraion can wreak havoc inside of our country with our gun rights. this is bad, very bad.
January 7th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
And you thought they didn’t keep those records.
We’ve had a form of gun registration since 1968 in the form of 4473. That’s what e-trace uses, though my understanding is that ATF can access distributor records, as they are all computerized, but at retail, they still have to put in a trace request with the dealer for the 4473.