FBI was supposed to purge their records by a time certain, after the background check was completed. FFL dealers were required to keep their 4473 hard copies indefinitely. When they closed their business, they went to ATF. ATF also goes in and scans their records. What could possibly go wrong?
So essentially if you are in the FBI, ATF etc... you are a lying, ethically challenged POS, cause I am not seeing any whistleblowers from any of these agencies exposing their criminal activities.