This is misleading? Wow! I thought it explicitly answered a very simple and specific question:
How many guns are actually traced every year?
In 2022, 623,000.
Not you. The stat of 623,000 is intended to mislead. That’s just ATF just my existence busywork. They like to pretend that’s crime fighting activity. It isn’t…. not by a longshot. I can assure you it’s rare to almost unheard of that an officer finds anything useful or does a crime from the serial number of a firearm, besides who the rightful owner of a stolen gun is.
Just doesn’t happen.
Although these days it will probably be used to criminalize the owner of the gun who had it stolen for not locking it up inside of a bank vault safe with a trigger lock on it.