Leahy, colleague push for searchable firearms database

High-powered rifles on the wall at Parro’s Gun Shop in Waterbury. File photo by Jim Welch/VTDigger
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators are pressing to modernize the tools federal law enforcement officers can use to trace firearms.
Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., introduced a bill that would require the federal government to set up a searchable electronic database that includes information tracing the production, shipment and sale of firearms.Get all of VTDigger's po