President Clinton announced a program today that will track the origins of guns confiscated from teenaged criminals. The 17-city effort will collect serial numbers and other information on the guns and feed that into a computer system run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The network should improve law enforcement's chances of finding out who is selling guns to juveniles. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the President has high hopes for the program, but some analysts don't see it making much of a dent in crime.
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