if you have a crime gun, you have leads and that helps you solve crimes. with unserialized weapons, with ghost guns, you don t have any of that. that doesn t mean you can t figure out who bought the gun, it s just a lot harder. and so the more serial numbers you have on weapons that are recovered on crime scenes, the easier it is to solve crimes. will it solve all the crimes? no, of course not. are there other ways that bad guys can unserialize weapons? sure, they do all the time. bad guys like the notion there aren t serial numbers on weapons. but the more numbers you have, the more leads you have. the more leads you have, the more crimes you can solve. as we talk about the other piece of this, which is as we came back on the air here outside the white house, the president s atf pick, the pick to leave the atf is speaking. i understand you know him personally. talk about the top priorities of this role. and i know you have some thoughts. for an agency that has rarely had confirmed p