No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary’s [1] authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.
..18 U.S. Code Section 926: subsection (a)(3)...
Are you kidding? That’s just another law for Obama to modify or disregard with the usual impunity.
Remember how quickly the feds had the information on where the San Bernardino muzzie killers’ guns were purchased and by whom?
They didn’t get the information from Carnac The Magnificent so they must have used a gun purchase/registration records data base of some sort.
You know - the kind of records prohibiited by 18 U.S. Code A 926: subsection (a)(3).
It might not be “required,” but dollars to donuts it’s “allowed” under any number of perfectly legal scenarios. Such as ones referenced by the last sentence in your quote.