The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.

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