Pete GAGLIARDI believed every crime gun has a story - if we just take the time to listen. When orders came down to destroy them, he saw more than steel being scrapped - he saw vital clues being silenced and justice slipping away. He couldn’t let that happen.This short video tells the beginning of the origin story of NIBIN - and the leadership lesson behind it: that great ideas don’t change the world - passionate champions do.Pete followed his conviction, and that fire helped sparked a national program - giving crime guns (and their evidence left behind) a voice, delivering “justice to victims, resolution to families, and peace to our communities.”

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