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I thought with the background check requirement it is essentially in a electronic DB already as far as 'person -> dealer' goes.
by novok 4y ago
I thought with the background check requirement it is essentially in a electronic DB already as far as 'person -> dealer' goes.
- kube-system 4y agoThe background check just verifies a person's eligibility to purchase a gun. If the background check is approved, the record of the sale is recorded on form 4473, which goes in your dealer's records. If the next day, the ATF wants to perform a trace, they call the dealer, who then has 24 hours to produce the records for them. This was a compromise at the time the law was passed to avoid "the federal government having a database of gun owners" The law requires NICS to delete records about approved transactions within 24 hours: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/25.9 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/25.9