 The Interpol firearms program believes that every recovered firearm until proven otherwise should be considered part of a larger scheme of firearms trafficking. So in order to properly identify and prosecute firearms traffickers, we have developed the firearms recovery protocol, a protocol we believe that if followed by investigators will help them to coordinate all information recovered from inside and outside the gun, as well as laboratory examinations and interviews of suspects and any of those associated with the firearm, coordinate that information and develop firearms trafficking investigations. Once a firearm is recovered as part of a crime, the protocol requests that the investigator check all required databases for national registry or even the IRMS database for international lost and stolen status of a firearm or to initiate a firearms trace. Then the firearm would be submitted to a forensics laboratory for fingerprint and DNA examination as well as ballistic comparison. Our work in the firearms program has been mainly dealing with investigators, the user of the product, but we often know that it takes policymakers to mandate these programs. So we hope in the future that we may be able to get two meetings with policymakers and decision makers within law enforcement and laboratory circles in order to better promote the protocol and also to suggest better means to target traffickers.