As BATF has been placing increasing importance on their tracing function, they have been creating more firearms registration records. We need to question their statutory authority for automating the tracing process. Originally, the tracing process was intended to be handled by phone calls to the manufacturer or importer, followed by calls to the distributer, and finally to the dealer. By increasingly computerizing this process,
BATF has created a massive system of registration of firearms, firearm owners and firearm transactions specifically prohibited by 18 U.S.C. 926(a).The question is, is it the BATAF’s ultimate goal to have a tracing system and a registration system of every firearm and every firearm owner in the United States?***from article***
Uh, YES!!!
Our own ATF, has been receiving out of business dealers books for years and have informed no one what it does. While everyone knows it is digitizing them into an ever growing database, all guns bought, sold, make, serial #'s, etc,...
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