We have it already, via Form 4473 - but it is incomplete, hence the push for "Universal" background checks so the private sellers will be forced to use them.
The response is to say that these forms stay with the dealer until he goes out of business and then the govt. gets them.
However, scattered reports from FFLs throughout the country tell of BATF agents, during their routine audits, photocopy the dealer's entire book.
Man, I hate it when I’m post #51. No one will see it!
Anyway, a registration law also requires a deregistration law. There is as yet no requirement to report the sale/transfer of a gun listed on a Form 4473. It’s a form, not a marriage certificate.
They can’t come to your door and demand, “That AR-15 you bought on October 11, 2009, now where is it!!?”
Not until there’s new legislation out of Congress. I still say it ain’t gonna happen. Dianne Feinstein has been going down in flames with her gun registration bills AND her assault weapons confiscation bills since at least 1989, whether there’s a Democrat majority or not. DiFi has the fanatical persistence of Captain Ahab, but that hasn’t translated into law on the books.
It’s already been two weeks since the Orlando ISIS massacre. Other than the usual growling from Obama, where are the bills in Congress to register all guns?