^ this is my point. I'm not concerned about the local atf agent that follows the law. I'm concerned about the stink in DC who thinks they are above the law. They already "red flag" people who buy a quantity of firearms. What's the secret number of nics checks before one is "red flagged"? They're always watching. The point isn't if your a good person or not, the point is I shouldn't have to be babysat. They know exactly where to come when they finally get the numbers to ban guns and I don't like that.Yes, that is to link the gun to the form. But they dont tell any of that to the feds during the approval process.
The only time the feds get that info is:
A: The gun was used in a crime and they are tracing it starting with the manufacturer to determine who purchased it. (Only THAT 4473 is considered)
B: The gun store goes under and the boxes of forms are shipped off to the feds per federal law. (ALL 4473s are sent to the feds to be stored so they can be searched when a gun needs to be traced)
The only scary thing is in the latter case, I have heard (NPR?) that they are starting to scan the boxes of 4437s surrendered by defunct shops in the federal warehouse using OCR to make the search go quicker. They want to be able to put in a serial number and immediately get a result instead of having a peon dig through box after box of paper forms. How long until that isolated database gets merged for live searches outside the scope of individual weapons traces?
