A new law is aimed at solving more crimes and creating safer communities. Starting this summer, all police agencies in Minnesota will be required to trace all guns recovered from crime scenes.

Gov. Tim Walz signed the change into law following a WCCO investigation where we took you inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Tracing Center . We discovered not all agencies use the free tracing system to gain investigative leads. And even fewer shared their information. The new law will change that.

Eagan police is one of the agencies in Minnesota already tracing all crime guns through the ATF.

"It is part of our standard procedure. It does not always give us the exact information that we're looking for, but it gives us a starting point," Property and Evi

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