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purchaser must fill out at the time of the transaction. The dealer must
retain this form for as long as he remains in the business of selling
firearms (Greco, 6). That way, if the firearm is involved in a crime, it
can easily be traced back to the purchaser.

Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to determine
the costs of implementing microstamping nationwide (United States,
House of Representatives, “Firearms”).
Although microstamping has not yet been implemented at the federal
level, California has enacted a microstamping mandate, and many
states (Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washing ۊH\