The only place where the guns used in any crime nationwide can be traced back to their original buyer is inside this unassuming government building in the mountains west of the nation's capital. Others feed those documents through rapidly whirring scanners, and still others call gun makers and dealers, digging up leads for thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. More than 1,800 trace requests arrive daily.
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DFL Gov. Tim Walz won re-election in part by winning strong support in areas of the Twin Cities metro area core and its suburbs further cementing Minnesota s urban-rural political divide.