Weapons Trafficking

Question 1

What is HSI responsible for

Answer 1

• The export enforcement of arms
• Border search authority
  HSI Violations:
• Smuggling goods from US
• Exportation w/o license
• Money laundering
• Aiding and abetting the commission of an offense
• conspiracy
• false statements.

Question 2

HSI and ATF MOU

Answer 2

• HSI shall report to ATF any firearms/explosives intel or violations
• AFT shall report any exportation of firearms and munitions to HSI
• MOU identifies what each lane is and what lane to stay in.

Question 3

ATF role

Answer 3

• ATF has primary responsibility for the regulation of arms importation
• Each time a nexus statement is requested, an ATF agent needs to open a case to generate the report.
• ATF = importation

Question 4

18 USC 554(a) Smuggling goods from the US

Answer 4

• whoever knowingly exports or sends from the US or attempts to send any item contrary to law or tries to buy sell, conceal prior to exportation
• to export items contrary to law (knowingly)
• To charge you have to list the other section of law that those goods are prohibited under.

Question 5

ATF Form 4473

Answer 5

• No database that keeps track, FFL has copy.
• Last recorded purchase/transfer of firearm.
• Large time to crime is indicative of a secondary market.
  time to crime = time from purchase to time of crime

Question 6

E - Trace

Answer 6

• Required info: make, model, serial number, caliber
• What you get from e trace: Last recorded purchaser/transferee, time to crime, FFL who conducted sale.
• ATF multiple sale forms = great lead generator.
  
  • generated when purchase of 2+ handguns in 5 days
  • or if on the southern border - 2 rifles greater than .22cal.