The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 4, over the ATF’s withholding of trace data in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The information is part of the ATF’s Demand Letter 2 (DL2) program. Under this program, guns that are connected to a crime within three years of their initial sale are considered to have a short “time-to-crime.”
If 25 or more such guns are connected to a single Federal Firearms Licensed (FFL) gun dealer within a year, they will receive a DL2 letter requesting additional information on such sales quarterly after receipt of the letter. …