I don't like this policy by Wal-mart, but I don't think you understand how the current system works.
The only time frame that expires is how long the records can be kept by the government on NICS checks. The retailer is required to keep a record of all gun purchases for as long as they stay in business, and are required to turn over those records to the ATF if they go out of business.
What Wal-mart is basically doing is adding video of the transaction to the records they are already required to keep. All that really would seem to do is allow the police to investigate if the person purchasing a gun was really who they claimed to be.
Yes, but what benefit will that provide beyond current info? The LEA will get a copy of your 4473, which required the seller to positviely ID the buyer with a valid picture ID and for the buyer to provide rather detailed personal info-SSAN, POB, DOB, description etc, so the video is only to do what-protect the seller, from what? Help LEAs, how?
Will they ask for permission to tape the buyer? This is not the same as routine surveillance video on security cameras, this is recording a personal transaction well beyond what is required by law. Who will control these tapes? The seller? Who gets them if not the seller? Who vettes the folks that watch them? I don’t think Wal-Mart does security clearances on the “associates” that will run this process or archive. Since when does a coalition of city administrators have the legal power to obtain such information?
Violations of several constitutionally protected rights in my mind.
This is fraught with statist concerns. Rant off.
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Buy American (pretty much rules out WalMart et al).
It goes beyond just adding video. This will amount to a separate Wal-Mart NICS check system. If you buy a gun, the Wal-Mart system apparently will access your past purchases, pull the s/n and check them against some crime database somewhere. Outside of NICS. Then even if you pass the NICS check (no warrants against you or felonies), Wal-Mart can refuse to sell to you if the Bloomberg file thinks you may have bought a “crime gun”. Not that I would normally buy a gun at Wal-Mart anyway, but I sure won’t now. It’s the principle of the thing. They are caving to Bloomberg just to get a store into NYC that probably won’t even sell guns.