[frankenMonkey]

Do you really think a government agency would willingly delete any data?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Are all dogs wolves?

[tomkat]

So, are "Background Checks" really "Gun Owner Registrations"

             

[KC Burke]

As we all recall, it was only days ago a CIA fellow was saying the power fulcrum had changed and the future of power was in information control and the US government OWNED that playing field.

Information is power. The government has it. We better do all we can to have a benign and responsive limited government.

[unixfox]

They keep EVERYTHING.

I don’t trust these mother f**kers one bit. This so called government is rotten from head to toe. They will push too far, there will be a straw that breaks the camels back.

[DManA]

What’s next? Background checks before you are allowed to express an opinion on a chat site?

[Venturer]

Does Pinochio have a wooden johnson?

[deweyfrank]

Thanks for this post. I believed this all along.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Do you really think a government agency would willingly obey any law?

[old curmudgeon]

I did not beat it to death, but I have asked two local gun dealers within the past 30 days how long they keep the paper and they said forever.

One said that if they ever came around to take our guns, he would burn it.

I hope some gun dealer will post here what the ATF is requiring today.

I would bet that like the IRS, they make their own rules as they go along.

[Kirkwood]

Well, as far as I know the dated NTN records are kept forever and the FFL keeps the original 4473 form, so the transaction information is all out there. My FFL dealer told me that his 4473 forms and sales records are checked regularly for gun ownership.

[MHGinTN]

I don't know exactly when the change happened, but a few years ago when I bought a firearm, the background check did not require a serial number. Every purchase in the last three years done from a dealer has required the call to read off the serial number and type and model of the weapon being purchased.

When I bought a couple of AR complete lowers last year, since one was to be a dedicated AR15 pistol, that had to be registered as such not just a serial number read off.

[tpmintx]

There are stories going around that ATF has been going into gun stores and demanding to see the 4473’s on file. Then scanning them all in, so they have digital copies. This is same as registration for any gun purchased since the 4473 went in. I think it was 1968.

[USNBandit]

Of course they delete data. They probably always delete the data detailing the data they were supposed to delete, but didn’t.