Crime & Justice

Why It Took Grit—and Luck—to Trace the Parade Massacre Gun to Robert ‘Bobby’ Crimo

DARK AGES

Federal agents should have just looked up the murder weapon’s owner on the national gun registry—except no such registry exists. Instead, it took some determined ATF agents.

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