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Counterpoint, the ATF's gun database. The technology exists, and yet it's not digitized. It's purely a policy issue.
by vangelis 7y ago
Counterpoint, the ATF's gun database. The technology exists, and yet it's not digitized. It's purely a policy issue.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agowhat does the ATF's gun database have to do with banning an idea? The database may be used to ban guns, but probably not every gun in existence, and as such it will not do anything about banning the idea that you can shoot metal projectiles out of a small handheld device with a cylinder for shooting the projectile s out of (so as to provide aiming capabilities and speed) in a way that these small handheld devices can be used as effective people killing tools.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe database itself is the idea that's been banned, or at least any computerised form of it. By the the Firearm Owners Protection Act (1986) a/k/a FOPA, 18 U.S.C. 926 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act Which is why ATFs National Tracing Center remains paper-based: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-atf-guns-trace-center-20160728-snap-htmlstory.html https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-atf-guns-trace-center-2...