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PA Bill Number: SB1376

Title: In Department of Aging, further providing for objectives, for powers and duties in general, for area agencies and powers and duties and for ...

Description: In Department of Aging, further providing for objectives, for powers and duties in general, for area agencies and powers and duties and for ... ...

Last Action: Re-referred to Appropriations

Last Action Date: Jun 10, 2026

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Agents Resisted Weapons Tracking :: 06/16/2011

Federal agents battled their supervisors to stop a government program that kept illicit guns in circulation to trace them to weapons traffickers, a new congressional report shows.

Some agents even worried that a gun tracked, then lost, in the program might have been used in the January shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. That didn't turn out to be the case, but other guns tracked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives did end up at other crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.

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