Hat tip ping.
All these federal databases will only stop when it becomes a federal offense for agencies to keep them. It will also help if someone in the agency is “assigned responsibility” for any databases, so if they are not purged as required, they will face criminal sanctions.
Skip ahead to the near future, could be 10, 20 or 30 years from now but an eventuality.
That firearms can be made at home, printed, bullets will be old school, batteries will advance, and the possibility of Star Trek style phasers a real possibility.
Anyone can get one at anytime, a whole society armed with disintegration guns.
That can be good and bad, mostly good I think as then you get a mutual polite respect knowing that if you are socially disturbing, politically unwanted or you may just smell very very bad you may find yourself nothing but a cloud of disjointed atoms.
And of course none can have any registration numbers, so the Feds are on the edge of the cliff of a historical occasion, they may TRY to confiscate billions of guns, but when they try America will just make unregistered weapons, better, more advanced and more available.
tit for tat.