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Former Norfolk police chief urges tracing illegal guns, cites retailer clusters and straw purchases
Summary
A guest speaker who served as Norfolk police chief described a tracing-focused strategy that linked thousands of recovered firearms to a small number of dealers, recommended law and policy changes, and said Virginia’s new laws changed behavior around lost or stolen guns.
A guest speaker identified as a former Norfolk, Virginia, police chief told the Community Coalition that tracing recovered firearms — not just vouchering them — exposed where many illegal guns originate and helped shape policy interventions. The former Norfolk police chief said tracing with eTrace showed that, from his department’s 2017–2020 analysis, investigators recovered roughly 5,000 guns and that only about 4% were reported lost or stolen. “If you don't investigate the weapon, you're just chasing the tail,” he said, explaining the basis for shifting to systematic…
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