Posted: 1/8/2009 6:07:50 AM EDT
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Just another BS program to make the uneducated public feel safer. In reality this will not even make a dent in the illegally purchased weapons.
NJ targets gun traffickers Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Last updated: Thursday January 8, 2009, 8:11 AM BY HEATHER HADDON NorthJersey.com STAFF WRITER Graphic: Trackng gun crime data A new state program is gathering unprecedented information about illegal guns traveling into New Jersey, and police expect to tap that data this year as part of a statewide crackdown on weapons used in violent crimes. New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but they can’t stop people from bringing weapons here from less regulated states. Almost three-quarters of guns recovered in New Jersey were purchased elsewhere, according to federal data released last year. To help stanch that flow, New Jersey will become the first state in the nation later this month to directly partner with federal firearms officials in pursuing gun traffickers across state borders. “We’re going to start knocking on doors at the end of January,” said state police Detective Sgt. Eric Barlow. About 15 percent of the 3,800 guns recovered in New Jersey and traced by the ATF came from Pennsylvania in 2007, a state with weaker gun laws, federal data shows. Officers recovered 70 of the guns that year in Paterson. The new NJ Trace program is a partnership between state police and federal authorities to discourage the purchase of illegal guns on city streets. Last year, New Jersey became the first state to establish a center to collect and analyze federal data about guns recovered at crime scenes. Cost for the program is minimal, and leaders from other states are eager to implement their own versions, state police said. “We’re getting calls weekly,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Andreychak, a state police commander who helped develop the program. Two years ago Wednesday, Paterson Officer Tyron Franklin was killed by a man who had been convicted of felony handgun charges in Essex County that barred him from purchasing a gun legally. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps a database of the make, model and buyer of weapons sold across the nation. The information is used to monitor gun trends and prosecute large traffickers. When a local police department recovers a gun at a crime scene, investigators determine if the gun was stolen by checking the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database. Federal law does not require officers to make a separate written request about the gun’s purchaser and history of past crimes to the ATF. Three years ago, state police became concerned about the thousands of recovered guns that were not submitted for ATF tracing. Police averaged 40,000 stolen-property searches on guns a year, but traced fewer than 4,000 with the ATF, Barlow said. “We were missing tons of information,” Barlow said. “Obviously the paper requests weren’t working.” In December 2006, state police and ATF representatives in Trenton agreed to share information about traces requested by New Jersey police departments. It took more than a year to develop the protocol, train police and create a computer system to communicate between local departments and the ATF. In February, the state Attorney General’s office mandated that local police departments use NJ Trace for all guns recovered. The software prompts officers to enter the gun’s make, model and recovery location, sending that information to the ATF to check its purchaser, seller and criminal history. The ATF relays the information back to the state police’s New Jersey Crime Gun Center in Trenton. Analysts watch for “straw-buyers,” people who buy the guns legally and sell them on the street without a permit. They also flag weapons involved in crimes shortly after being purchased. The pilot program has dramatically increased the number of gun traces conducted in New Jersey. Passaic County officials traced 210 weapons in the last seven months, double the number in 2007, Barlow said. “We did as much as we could before. But ATF really helped give us a structure,” said Passaic Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Bill Maer. To demonstrate NJ Trace’s ability to prosecute criminals, the Attorney General’s office used it to indict five men in May. Police believe the men were straw-buyers who legally purchased weapons in Pennsylvania and sold them on the streets of Trenton for a profit. The men separately bought a total of 10 weapons between them at gun shops in Bucks County, Pa., according to the allegations from the Attorney General’s office. Later this month, the state will sign an agreement with the ATF to increase the program’s manpower to investigate buyers, Andreychak said. The FBI will send four agents to the gun center to work with three state troopers sworn in as federal investigators, he said. Working with the center’s four analysts, the team will act on traces collected and analyzed last year, such as eight weapons recovered by the Paterson Police Department in April. The investigators will track possible straw-buyers across the country. Police hope to hand down indictments that will result in felony convictions, which bars someone from buying a gun. “This helps breaks the cycle,” Barlow said. “Many purchasers have committed misdemeanor offenses, but they can still buy guns.” Costs for the program are negligible. State police built the NJ Trace software in-house and reassigned four existing troopers to the gun center, Andreychak said. The ATF pays for the two full-time analysts, and two part-time investigators will cost the state about $87,000 a year. Andreychak said governors and senators from across the country have asked him about the NJ Trace program. He’s agreed to provide the software for free, he said. Weapons confiscated last year by Paterson police. A new state program is gathering unprecedented information about illegal guns traveling into New Jersey, and police expect to tap that data this year as part of a statewide crackdown on weapons used in violent crimes. New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but they can’t stop people from bringing weapons here from less regulated states. Almost three-quarters of guns recovered in New Jersey were purchased elsewhere, according to federal data released last year. To help stanch that flow, New Jersey will become the first state in the nation later this month to directly partner with federal firearms officials in pursuing gun traffickers across state borders. “We’re going to start knocking on doors at the end of January,” said state police Detective Sgt. Eric Barlow. About 15 percent of the 3,800 guns recovered in New Jersey and traced by the ATF came from Pennsylvania in 2007, a state with weaker gun laws, federal data shows. Officers recovered 70 of the guns that year in Paterson. The new NJ Trace program is a partnership between state police and federal authorities to discourage the purchase of illegal guns on city streets. Last year, New Jersey became the first state to establish a center to collect and analyze federal data about guns recovered at crime scenes. Cost for the program is minimal, and leaders from other states are eager to implement their own versions, state police said. “We’re getting calls weekly,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Andreychak, a state police commander who helped develop the program. Two years ago Wednesday, Paterson Officer Tyron Franklin was killed by a man who had been convicted of felony handgun charges in Essex County that barred him from purchasing a gun legally. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps a database of the make, model and buyer of weapons sold across the nation. The information is used to monitor gun trends and prosecute large traffickers. When a local police department recovers a gun at a crime scene, investigators determine if the gun was stolen by checking the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database. Federal law does not require officers to make a separate written request about the gun’s purchaser and history of past crimes to the ATF. Three years ago, state police became concerned about the thousands of recovered guns that were not submitted for ATF tracing. Police averaged 40,000 stolen-property searches on guns a year, but traced fewer than 4,000 with the ATF, Barlow said. “We were missing tons of information,” Barlow said. “Obviously the paper requests weren’t working.” In December 2006, state police and ATF representatives in Trenton agreed to share information about traces requested by New Jersey police departments. It took more than a year to develop the protocol, train police and create a computer system to communicate between local departments and the ATF. In February, the state Attorney General’s office mandated that local police departments use NJ Trace for all guns recovered. The software prompts officers to enter the gun’s make, model and recovery location, sending that information to the ATF to check its purchaser, seller and criminal history. The ATF relays the information back to the state police’s New Jersey Crime Gun Center in Trenton. Analysts watch for “straw-buyers,” people who buy the guns legally and sell them on the street without a permit. They also flag weapons involved in crimes shortly after being purchased. The pilot program has dramatically increased the number of gun traces conducted in New Jersey. Passaic County officials traced 210 weapons in the last seven months, double the number in 2007, Barlow said. “We did as much as we could before. But ATF really helped give us a structure,” said Passaic Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Bill Maer. To demonstrate NJ Trace’s ability to prosecute criminals, the Attorney General’s office used it to indict five men in May. Police believe the men were straw-buyers who legally purchased weapons in Pennsylvania and sold them on the streets of Trenton for a profit. The men separately bought a total of 10 weapons between them at gun shops in Bucks County, Pa., according to the allegations from the Attorney General’s office. Later this month, the state will sign an agreement with the ATF to increase the program’s manpower to investigate buyers, Andreychak said. The FBI will send four agents to the gun center to work with three state troopers sworn in as federal investigators, he said. Working with the center’s four analysts, the team will act on traces collected and analyzed last year, such as eight weapons recovered by the Paterson Police Department in April. The investigators will track possible straw-buyers across the country. Police hope to hand down indictments that will result in felony convictions, which bars someone from buying a gun. “This helps breaks the cycle,” Barlow said. “Many purchasers have committed misdemeanor offenses, but they can still buy guns.” Costs for the program are negligible. State police built the NJ Trace software in-house and reassigned four existing troopers to the gun center, Andreychak said. The ATF pays for the two full-time analysts, and two part-time investigators will cost the state about $87,000 a year. Andreychak said governors and senators from across the country have asked him about the NJ Trace program. He’s agreed to provide the software for free, he said. Reach Heather Haddon at 973-569-7121 or [email protected]. http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_targets_gun_traffickers.html |
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How do you catch a GHOST? [>:/]
If this grows legs, expect it in a state near you. What to expect? Some kind of bring YOUR guns in (to the authoritays) to see if YOU still have them. Of course this would only apply to those you purchased and they have paperwork on, but all in all this is just another step to know where the guns are to take them away. 
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So whats that supposed to mean? Are they coming to everyone's house who has a FID? Or just following up on all out of state purchases? Waste of time and money either way in my opinion Nope they are following up on out-of staters who's name appears on multiple felony guns recovered here. Let's say for example I pull a gun off of a guy and it comes back once ATF traces the Serial Number to being sold at "Jakes Gun and Ammo' in Possum-Nut pa, to Jow Blow. But when that info goes to NJSP they find that Joe Blow was the OP on another half dozen guns that were recovered in Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, and Irvington... NOW someone is going to be knocking on Joe's door and saying WTF? |
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"The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps a database of the make, model and buyer of weapons sold across the nation. The information is used to monitor gun trends and prosecute large traffickers"
Say what?! So when did that happen? Sounds like BS to me. |
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It sounds to me that when they recover a crime gun, they (the Federally sworn NJSP officers) will trace it from manufacturer to distributor to FFL dealer, then go dig through the FFL's paper 4473s to identify the original legal purchaser's identity.
Then they'll go knock on HIS door and try to continue the tracking process. And they're going to get there by hitching a ride on the back of the nearest flying monkey, right? King Jon and Mistress Anne, you two are a real fucking piece of work 
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King Jon and Mistress Anne, you two are a real fucking piece of work Mistress Anne will be leaving us soon. I hear she wants to be the Federal Prosecutor for NJ 
Great 
Then we'll get her assistant Jeffrey something-or-other. I've heard this axxhole testify at Law & Public Safety Committee hearings and he's as pro-gun as a concrete block, and as truthful in his testimony as Bill Klinton was in his denials of nooky with Monica. |
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King Jon and Mistress Anne, you two are a real fucking piece of work Mistress Anne will be leaving us soon. I hear she wants to be the Federal Prosecutor for NJ
I had High Hopes for her..considering the state we're in I think she was the pick of the litter at the time when it came to candidates..Let's look at reality as long as the Assembly and Senate, not to mention the Governor's office...oh the helll with it. AS LONG AS THIS IS NJ I doubt we'll ever get a pro-gun AG sad as that is to say, there are just WAY too many sheep here. On the LE side, she sounded REALLY good.. Clean up the language so we could actually USE the Less-Lethat tools that everyone else in the firgging country has, and Maybe not have to shoot some people, and fast-track the Tasers to drive that number down ever more. Instead, she's spending a whole Shitpot full of time making up task forces, and response teams for problems that WE DONT have.. A friend of mine went through the cram that has been coming out of the AG for the county prosecutor's offices in the last few months, and all i could do was shake my head. Personally I LIKE Anne..as much as i can like any Democrat, and screaming liberal, but she's been a dissapointment professionally since she went from Prosecutor to AG. |