Action News reporter Maggie Kent sat down one-on-one with the national director of the ATF, Steve Dettelbach.
He provides insight on gun trafficking in the Delaware Valley and the latest issues on the agency's radar.
"We're able to use technology to get a fingerprint of the expended cartridge of a crime gun by putting it into a NIBIN machine, the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network," said Dettelbach. "It really allows us to run almost a criminal history of the gun, to link together one murder with another shooting."There is a lot to tackle. First up is the exponential rise in illegal ghost - or privately manufactured - guns.
"In a matter of seconds they can change a legal semi-automatic gun into an illegal machine gun," said Dettelbach. The ATF is only as strong as its partnerships in law enforcement. It has teamed up with the Philadelphia police to catch and federally prosecute carjackers.
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